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Simone Weil

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To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.


— Simone Weil


#hero #heroine #must #oneself #order

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


— Simone Weil


#over #possess #power

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


#because #best #ends #great #lives

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


#alone #contemplate #god #him #image

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.


— Simone Weil


#debases #degrades #entire #human #human being

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.


— Simone Weil


#been #certain #class #comes #life

I can, therefore I am.


— Simone Weil


#am #i #i am #i can #therefore

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


#brute force #cannot #corpses #dead #easier

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.


— Simone Weil


#fiction #life #make #make up #more

Humility is attentive patience.


— Simone Weil


#attentive #humility






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Nor does this constitute a delimitation of God's omnipotence if it is not that God could not create a perfect world but that the act which we refer towards by saying "create" in its very essence implies the impossibility of perfection. At this time Simone Weil was a Marxist pacifist and trade unionist. When Simone Weil returned to France her political friends in France dismissed her fears thinking Germany would continue to be controlled by the centrists or those to the left.

She taught intermittently throughout the 1930s taking several breaks due to poor health and to devote herself to political activism work that would see her assisting in the trade union movement taking the side of the left in the Spanish Civil War and spending more than a year working as a labourer mostly in auto factories so Simone Weil could better understand the working class. Weil wrote throughout her life though most of her writings did not attract much attention until after her death. Simone Weil (French: [simɔn vɛj]; 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher Christian mystic and social activist.

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