Quote

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

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
Fields
Contain
Worth
Academic
Education
Acquire
Order
Precious
Able
Keeping
Nothing
Sell
Pearl
Work
Sells
Possessions
Possession
Pearls

More quotes by Simone Weil

Image
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
Simone Weil
Image
Truth is one, but error is manifold.
Simone Weil
Image
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
Simone Weil
Image
Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.
Simone Weil
Image
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
Simone Weil
Image
Algebra and money are essentially levelers the first intellectually, the second effectively.
Simone Weil
Image
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
Simone Weil
Image
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
Simone Weil
Image
We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.
Simone Weil
Image
Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.
Simone Weil
Image
Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
Simone Weil
Image
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
Simone Weil
Image
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
Simone Weil
Image
It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.
Simone Weil
Image
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
Image
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Simone Weil
Image
The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.
Simone Weil
Image
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
Simone Weil
Image
Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.
Simone Weil
Image
The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
Simone Weil