Simone Weil

Insights and aphorisms from French philosopher Simone Weil, 1909-1943.

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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

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The Incarnation of Christianity implies a harmonious solution of the problem of the relations between the individual and the collective. Harmony in the Pythagorean sense; the just balance of contraries. This solution is precisely what men are thirsting for today.

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A popular Spanish song says in words of marvelous truth: "If anyone wants to make himself invisible, there is no surer way than to become poor." Love sees what is invisible.

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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

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The past once destroyed never returns. The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

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At its core, politics is nothing more than war transferred into the city. It is in this sense, and only in this sense, that Troy is located at the beginning of our political history, for it is the first of an infinite series of cities invaded and destroyed by war.

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If we want to have a love which will protect the soul from wounds, we must love something other than God.

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let us love the country of here below. It is real; it offers resistance to love. It is this country that God has given us to love. He has willed that it should be difficult yet possible to love it.

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Our life is impossibility, absurdity. Everything we want contradicts the conditions or the consequences attached to it, every affirmation we put forward involves a contradictory affirmation, all our feelings are mixed up with their opposites.

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

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The most important question is that of finding out what are the causes of social oppression.

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Refuse to be an accomplice. Don't lie. -don't keep your eyes shut...

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And although he is not by definition the good man perhaps he is the kind of man who is most likely of all to become good. (3/3)

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Guest quote from #IrisMurdoch :
The humble man, because he sees himself as nothing, can see other things as they are. He sees the pointlessness of virtue and its unique value and the endless extent of its demand. (1/3)

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Simone Weil tells us that the exposure of the soul to God condemns the selfish part of it not to suffering but to death. The humble man perceives the distance between suffering and death. (2/3)

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The sirens do not offer Ulysses pleasure, but knowledge.