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Simone Weil

  • Simone Weil

    Simone Weil (; 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and political activist.

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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

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Simone Weil

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Tags: Career, Between, Often
Simone Weil

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Tags: Equality, Truth, Without
Simone Weil

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

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Simone Weil

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Tags: God, Two, Same
Simone Weil

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.

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Simone Weil

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

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Simone Weil

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

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Simone Weil

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Tags: Enemy, Reason
Simone Weil

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Tags: Science, Bring, Worthless
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