"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." ~Simone Weil
"Even if your efforts seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood your soul." ~Simone Weil (1910-1943)
“𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑘𝑦.𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ.”~𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗹, 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝘆 “𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆”
“Man’s greatness is always to recreate his life, to recreate what is given to him, to fashion that very thing which he undergoes. Through work he produces his own natural existence. Through science he recreates the universe by means of symbols. Through art he recreates the alliance between his body and his soul.”
~Simone Weil, “The Mysticism of Work”
"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." ~Simone Weil
"The joy of meeting and the sorrow of separation … we should welcome these gifts … with our whole soul, and experience to the full, and with the same gratitude, all the sweetness or bitterness as the case may be. Meeting and separation are two forms of friendship that contain the same good, in the one case through pleasure and in the other through sorrow… Soon there will be distance between us. Let us love this distance which is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other are not separated." ~Simone Weil
"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of he human soul." ~Simone Weil
"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." ~Simone Weil
"The joy of meeting and the sorrow of separation … we should welcome these gifts … with our whole soul, and experience to the full, and with the same gratitude, all the sweetness or bitterness as the case may be. Meeting and separation are two forms of friendship that contain the same good, in the one case through pleasure and in the other through sorrow… Soon there will be distance between us. Let us love this distance which is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other are not separated." ~Simone Weil
"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of he human soul." ~Simone Weil
BIO
𝐒𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐈𝐋 (1909-1943) is one of the most important thinkers of the modern period. The distinctive feature of her work is the indissoluble link she makes between the theory and practice of both politics and religion and her translation of thought into action. A brilliant philosopher and mathematician, her life represents a quest for justice and balance in both the academic and the practical spheres. A scholar of deep and wide erudition, she became during the thirties an inspired teacher and activist. So as to experience physical labour at first hand, she spent almost two years as a car factory worker soon after the Front Populaire and later became a fighter in the Spanish Civil War. When her home city of Paris was occupied, she joined the Resistance in the South of France and became for a time an agricultural labourer before acceding to her parents’ wish to escape Nazi persecution of the Jews by fleeing to New York. Leaving America, she joined the Free French in London where, frustrated by the exclusively intellectual nature of the work delegated to her, and weakened by a number of physical and emotional factors, she contracted tuberculosis and died in a Kentish sanatorium at the age of thirty-four. The bulk of her voluminous oeuvre was published postumously.
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