Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The villagers seldom leave the village many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.
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
Leave
Cultivated
Science
Seldom
Many
Village
Mind
Scientists
Limited
Apart
Villagers
Scientist
Specialty
Minds
Poorly
More quotes by 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
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
Simone Weil
Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.
Simone Weil
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Simone Weil
The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.
Simone Weil
Fire destroys that which feeds it.
Simone Weil
Compassion directed to oneself is humility.
Simone Weil
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
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
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Simone Weil
To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.
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
Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
Simone Weil
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
Simone Weil
prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.
Simone Weil
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Simone Weil
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
Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
Simone Weil
The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.
Simone Weil
