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Simone Adolphine Weil Facts
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Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. She often became involved in political action out of sympathy with the working class. In 1915, when she was only six years old, she refused sugar in solidarity with the troops entrenched along the Western Front. In 1919, at 10 years of age, she declared herself a Bolshevik. she became more religious and inclined towards mysticism as her life progressed. Weil wrote throughout her life, though most of her writings did not attract much attention until after her death. In the 1950s and 1960s, her work became famous in continental Europe and throughout the English-speaking world. Albert Camus described her as "the only great spirit of our times". (1909-1943) |
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Quotes by Simone Adolphine Weil
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Simone Weil
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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil /Gravity and Grace/
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Simone Weil
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Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him)... Every being cries out silently to be read differently.
Simone Weil /Gravity and Grace/
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Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves.
Simone Weil
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Simone Weil
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The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through. ...Every separation is a link.
Simone Weil /Gravity and Grace/
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
Simone Weil
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Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
Simone Weil /Lectures on Philosophy/
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
Simone Weil
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