Quote

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

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
Faults
Attention
Trying
Cure
Cures

More quotes by Simone Weil

Image
Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive
Simone Weil
Image
One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.
Simone Weil
Image
Science is voiceless it is the scientists who talk.
Simone Weil
Image
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Simone Weil
Image
The villagers seldom leave the village many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.
Simone Weil
Image
The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.
Simone Weil
Image
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Simone Weil
Image
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
Simone Weil
Image
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Simone Weil
Image
I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.
Simone Weil
Image
The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.
Simone Weil
Image
Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.
Simone Weil
Image
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Simone Weil
Image
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Simone Weil
Image
Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.
Simone Weil
Image
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
Simone Weil
Image
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Simone Weil
Image
one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.
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
Algebra and money are essentially levelers the first intellectually, the second effectively.
Simone Weil