133 ordspråk av Simone Weil

Simone Weil

Simone Weil

Simone Weil föddes den 3 februar 1909 och dog den 24 august 1943 - fransk författarinna.
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Obvious and inexorable oppression that cannot be overcome does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present

God gives himself to men as powerful or as perfect - it is for them to choose

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

The role of the intelligence -that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

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