Simone Weil @simone_says_en

French philosopher and mystic. 1909-1943 Paris Joined May 2022

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Augusto Del Noce @AugustoDelNoce

2 years ago

“In the domain of the spirit evil produces only evil and good produces only good.” (Simone Weil)

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Simone Weil @simone_says_en

2 years ago

If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one’s own damnation while in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.

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Simone Weil @simone_says_en

2 years ago

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

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Simone Weil @simone_says_en

2 years ago

One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

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Simone Weil @simone_says_en

2 years ago

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

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Simone Weil @simone_says_en

2 years ago

Gratitude is first of all the business of him who helps, if the help is pure. It is only by virtue of reciprocity that it is due from him who is helped.

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Simone Weil @simone_says_en

2 years ago

The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.

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Simone Weil @simone_says_en

2 years ago

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

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Simone Weil @simone_says_en

2 years ago

True faith implies great discretion, even with regard to itself. It is a secret between God and us in which we ourselves have scarcely any part.

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Simone Weil @simone_says_en

2 years ago

A man left alone in the universe would have no rights whatever, but he would have obligations.

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2 years ago

There is a natural alliance between truth and affliction, because both of them are mute suppliants, eternally condemned to stand speechless in our presence.

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Simone Weil @simone_says_en

2 years ago

Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science.

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Simone Weil @simone_says_en

2 years ago

To kill by our thought everything we love: the only way to die.

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The reality of the world is the result of our attachment. It is the reality of the self which we transfer into things. It has nothing to do with independent reality. That is only perceptible through total detachment. Should only one thread remain, there is still attachment.

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Simone Weil @simone_says_en

2 years ago

The extinction of desire (Buddhism)—or detachment—or amor fati—or desire for the absolute good—these all amount to the same: to empty desire, finality of all content, to desire in the void, to desire without any wishes.

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Simone Weil @simone_says_en

2 years ago

Human misery would be intolerable if it were not diluted in time. We have to prevent it from being diluted 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 be intolerable.

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Simone Weil @simone_says_en

2 years ago

I feel that it is necessary and ordained that I should be alone, a stranger and an exile in relation to every human circle without exception.

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Simone Weil @simone_says_en

2 years ago

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

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Simone Weil @simone_says_en

2 years ago

One of the most dangerous forms of sin, or perhaps the most dangerous, consists of introducing what is unlimited into a domain that is essentially finite.