Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.
Simone Weil
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Innovators
Defenders
Conservatives
Opponents
Innovation
Capitalism
Struggle
Make
Conserve
More quotes by Simone Weil
The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.
Simone Weil
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
Simone Weil
You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.
Simone Weil
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
Simone Weil
Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.
Simone Weil
Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.
Simone Weil
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
Simone Weil
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
Simone Weil
Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.
Simone Weil
Necessity is God's veil.
Simone Weil
Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.
Simone Weil
The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.
Simone Weil
The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Simone Weil
Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
Simone Weil
The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.
Simone Weil
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
Simone Weil
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
Simone Weil
The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.
Simone Weil
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
Simone Weil
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Simone Weil
