Simone Weil Quotes

Simone Weil

French Philosopher

Born: Feb 3, 1909

Died: Aug 24, 1943

Does Every God Life Nothing Who

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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. Simone Weil

Great Reality Detached Someone Only Attachment Attained Who Illusions

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. Simone Weil

Humility is attentive patience. Simone Weil

Patience Humility Attentive

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. Simone Weil

Listening Compassion Affliction Difficult Someone Know Him Listen Just Really

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. Simone Weil

Work Spirituality Lies Civilization True Contemporary True Greatness Greatness Form Founded

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. Simone Weil

Destruction Past Crimes Perhaps Greatest

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. Simone Weil

Life God Life Is A Every Parable Invented Perfect Perfect Life

A mind enclosed in language is in prison. Simone Weil

Language Mind Prison Enclosed

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. Simone Weil

Power Possess Over Get

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. Simone Weil

Work Best Great Above Write Put Because Ends Them Themselves Separating Works Pettiness Lives Necessarily Stressing

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers. Simone Weil

Culture Will More Instrument Still Turn Teachers Manufacture Who

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. Simone Weil

Fools Nothing Once Corpses Easier More Brute Brute Force Ideas Dead Force Spread Were Than Cannot Story Who

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. Simone Weil

Considered Circumstances Characteristic Would More More Or Less Becomes Permanent According Human Which Barbarism Less Play Universal Suggest

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. Simone Weil

Lie Impossible Resolve Except Know Contradiction Door Then Really

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