Simone Weil
Simone Weil
Simone Weil; 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and political activist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth3 February 1909
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
equality degrees needs
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
faith-in-god injustice victim
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
time would-be world
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
pride men intelligent
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
oppression appearance economics
What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.
lost-everything periods lost
You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.
opposites soul virtue
The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.
time past crime
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
sacred needs truth-is
The need for truth is more sacred than any other need.
relevant eternal
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
nursing compassion listening
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
live-in-the-moment today saint
Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.
errors perspective sometimes
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
punishment soul suffering
Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.