“The role of the intelligence – that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.”
— Simone Weil
Author: Simone Weil
Category: intelligence
Tags: intelligence, Simone Weil
Tag: Simone Weil
To want friendship is a great fault.
“To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.”
— Simone Weil
Author: Simone Weil
Category: friendship
Tags: friendship, Simone Weil
Imagination is always the fabric of social
“Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.”
— Simone Weil
Author: Simone Weil
Category: history
Tags: history, Simone Weil
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire
“Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.”
— Simone Weil
Author: Simone Weil
Category: intelligence
Tags: intelligence, Simone Weil
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed
“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.”
— Simone Weil
Author: Simone Weil
Category: equality
Tags: equality, Simone Weil
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
“Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.”
— Simone Weil
Author: Simone Weil
Category: beauty
Tags: beauty, Simone Weil
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything,
“A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.”
— Simone Weil
Author: Simone Weil
Category: war
Tags: war, Simone Weil
Force is as pitiless to the man
“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.”
— Simone Weil
Author: Simone Weil
Category: truth
Tags: truth, Simone Weil
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with
“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.”
— Simone Weil
Author: Simone Weil
Category: god
Tags: god, Simone Weil
Humility is attentive patience.
“Humility is attentive patience.”
— Simone Weil
Author: Simone Weil
Category: patience
Tags: patience, Simone Weil
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that
“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.”
— Simone Weil
Author: Simone Weil
Category: beauty
Tags: beauty, Simone Weil