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Simone Weil
French
Philosopher
Born:
Feb 3
,
1909
Died:
Aug 24
,
1943
Does
Every
God
Life
Nothing
Who
Related authors:
Albert Camus
Blaise Pascal
Henri Bergson
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Paul Sartre
Michel de Montaigne
Montesquieu
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Simone Weil
Soul
Important
Recognized
Perhaps
Most
Least
Human
The Most Important
Rooted
Human Soul
Need
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
Made
Crushed
Nothing
Side
Unless
Oneself
Feel
Feels
Crushing
Understand
Oppressed
Person
Human
Human Beings
Happening
Cannot
Placed
Them
Who
Beings
Humility is attentive patience.
Simone Weil
Patience
Humility
Attentive
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
Truth
Man
Equality
Grace
Liberty
Value
Beauty
Thinking
Wrong
Himself
Without
Get
Infinite
Them
Humanism
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
Simone Weil
Truth
Time
Truth Is
Humiliation
Long
Long Time
Own
State
Extreme
Way
Total
Only
Through
Annihilation
Dwelling
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
Simone Weil
Obligation
Human Being
Hunger
Toward
Him
Coming
His
Human
Being
Eternal
Suffer
Assistance
Chance
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
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
Simone Weil
Soil
Poison
Other
Some
More
Like
Becomes
Hitherto
Diseases
Tuberculosis
Skepticism
Much
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
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
Simone Weil
God
Alone
Our
One Thing
About
More
Only
He
Contemplate
Know
Him
Thing
Image
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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