Simone Weil

Birth: 1909-02-03 , Paris

Death: 1943-08-24 , Ashford

Simone Weil was a French-Jewish philosopher, mystic, and political activist. She is known for her works on the human condition, social justice, and religious experience. Weil was a renowned intellectual who was deeply interested in the social and political problems of her time.

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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him: “What are you going through?”

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

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is essentially anonymous about it.

To be a hero, one must give an order to oneself.

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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Simone Weil was one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th century. Her philosophy is marked by a deep concern for justice, truth, and human suffering. She actively engaged in social and political movements, including the Spanish Civil War, where she fought alongside the Republicans. Weil also had an intense spiritual life, culminating in her mystical experiences and her adherence to Catholicism. Her works, published posthumously, such as 'The Labour of Opium' and 'Waiting for God', continue to inspire and challenge readers with their penetrating analysis of the human condition and their search for transcendent meaning.