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About Simone Weil
French philosopher, mystic, political activist and labourer
Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, political activist, and labourer. She is remembered for a body of thought that continued to shape contemporary philosophy after her short life ended. Her writing and thinking centered on religion, spirituality, and politics. Those themes gave her work a lasting reach, especially among readers drawn to serious moral and political reflection.
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- “God created through love and for love. God did not create anything except love itself, and the means to love.…”Simone Weil
- “To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we lov…”Simone Weil
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- “In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.”Sharon Salzberg
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Books by Simone Weil
Oppression et liberté
1978
The Simone Weil reader
1985