Simone Weil

(1909–1943) · French Philosopher

Was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. Since 1995, more than 5,000 scholarly works have been published about her, including close analyses and readings of her work.

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Simone Weil

(1909–1943) · French Philosopher

Was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. Since 1995, more than 5,000 scholarly works have been published about her, including close analyses and readings of her work.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
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.
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.
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
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.

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