“Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.”

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.