Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.
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
Every
Available
Time
Present
Impossible
Anyone
Desire
Place
Truth
Whole
Desires
More quotes by 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
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
Simone Weil
In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.
Simone Weil
We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.
Simone Weil
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
Simone Weil
The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.
Simone Weil
Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.
Simone Weil
Evil is neither suffering nor sin it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.
Simone Weil
The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.
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 whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.
Simone Weil
Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
Simone Weil
Science is voiceless it is the scientists who talk.
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
An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.
Simone Weil
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Simone Weil
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Simone Weil
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
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Simone Weil
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
Simone Weil