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Simone Weil Biography

Simone Weil (/veɪ/; French: [simɔn vɛj] ( listen); 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist.

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

Gratitude, Joy, Love, Pure, Suffering, Thank You

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

Art, Art Is, Collectives, Future, Life

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

Action, Applies, Direction, God, Spirituality, Steps

The world is God's language to us.

God, Language, World

Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.

Foreseen, Imagination, Real, Suffering, Took

Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.

Soul, Suffering, Facts, Unmarked, Catastrophe

If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate.

Girl, Inadequate, Rights, Situation, Sound, Young

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

Compassion, Contemplation, Feeding, Hungry

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

Levers, Contradiction, Transcendence, Lever

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Cell, Intelligent, Man, Men, Pride, Proud

On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.

Degrees, Lose, Pain, World

The necessity for power is obvious, because life cannot be lived without order; but the allocation of power is arbitrary because all men are alike, or very nearly. Yet power must not seem to be arbitrarily allocated, because it will not then be recognized as power. Therefore prestige, which is illusion, is of the very essence of power.

Arbitrary, Essence, Men, Order

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

Committed, Crimes, Evil, Heart, Infancy, Teeth

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Evil, Mystery, Pain, Root, Roots

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

Block, Freedom, Real, Spiritual, Stand, Strain

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Crime, Crimes, Greatest, Past, Perhaps, Time

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

Faith, Lest, Lie, Lying, Soul

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.

Affirmation, Aggravation, Contemplation, Faith, Reality, Spiritual

We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.

God, Heaven, Heavenward, Long, Single, Travel

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

Desire, Impossible, Present, Time, Truth, Whole

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