Quote

Algebra and money are essentially levelers the first intellectually, the second effectively.

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
Second
Money
Algebra
Firsts
Intellectually
First
Effectively
Essentially
Mathematical
Math
Mathematics

More quotes by Simone Weil

Image
The villagers seldom leave the village many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.
Simone Weil
Image
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Simone Weil
Image
Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive
Simone Weil
Image
All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.
Simone Weil
Image
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
Simone Weil
Image
Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.
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
Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.
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
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
Simone Weil
Image
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
Simone Weil
Image
The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.
Simone Weil
Image
You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.
Simone Weil
Image
The only great spirit of our time.
Simone Weil
Image
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
Simone Weil
Image
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
Simone Weil
Image
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
Simone Weil
Image
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Simone Weil
Image
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Simone Weil
Image
Fire destroys that which feeds it.
Simone Weil