Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Simone Weil
Age: 34 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 3
Died: 1943
Died: August 24
Autobiographer
Diarist
French Resistance Fighter
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
Trade Unionist
Translator
Writer
Paris
France
Simone Adolphine Weil
Mean
Catholic
Separates
Thing
God
Knocking
Every
Communication
Link
Whose
Prisoner
Wall
Links
Means
Separation
Two
Cells
Nonverbal
Also
Communicate
Prisoners

More quotes by Simone Weil

Image
Necessity is God's veil.
Simone Weil
Image
The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.
Simone Weil
Image
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.
Simone Weil
Image
Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.
Simone Weil
Image
One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.
Simone Weil
Image
We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable of perceiving that there are treasures of purest gold to be found in non-Christian civilizations. Laical education does an even greater injury to children. It covers up those treasures, and those of Christianity as well.
Simone Weil
Image
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.
Simone Weil
Image
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.
Simone Weil
Image
It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.
Simone Weil
Image
Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.
Simone Weil
Image
How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?
Simone Weil
Image
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
Simone Weil
Image
The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.
Simone Weil
Image
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
Simone Weil
Image
Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.
Simone Weil
Image
...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude for he is a thinking creature.
Simone Weil
Image
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
Simone Weil
Image
Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.
Simone Weil
Image
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
Simone Weil
Image
It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.
Simone Weil