Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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
Matter
Believe
Murderers
Official
Murderer
Officials
Believing
Word
History
More quotes by Simone Weil
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Weil
Fire destroys that which feeds it.
Simone Weil
Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
Simone Weil
The Our Father contains all possible petitions we cannot conceive of any prayer not already contained in it. It is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.
Simone Weil
The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.
Simone Weil
When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.
Simone Weil
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
Simone Weil
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Simone Weil
Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
Simone Weil
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
Simone Weil
Distance is the soul of beauty.
Simone Weil
...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
A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.
Simone Weil
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
Simone Weil
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Simone Weil
the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.
Simone Weil
A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
Simone Weil
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
Simone Weil
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Simone Weil
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
Simone Weil
