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
pride men intelligent
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
teamwork taken sorrow
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
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.
sacred needs truth-is
The need for truth is more sacred than any other need.
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.
crucible earth way
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
machines
Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
intimate-conversation names two
Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.
purity ability contemplating
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
opposites transcendental contradictory
The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.
innocence ifs
What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?
divine-wisdom secret misery
It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.
filling-up law space
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.
men giving debt
Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.