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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.
More from Simone Weil (108 quotes) →Keep reading Simone Weil
- “It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that i…”Simone Weil
- “Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”Simone Weil
- “It is impossible to forgive whoever has done us harm if that harm has lowered us. We have to think that it ha…”Simone Weil
- “The sum of the particular intentions of God is the universe itself.”Simone Weil
More Ethics quotes
- “You can't do a good deal with a bad guy. The dishonesty tax is too high and is not something you will factor…”Chet Billingsley
- “I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high bec…”Jakob Dylan
- “You lie and kill in the service of liars and killers. You pretend to be separate, to have your own code, some…”Loki
Morality: more sayings
- “Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely im…”Friedrich Nietzsche
- “I was entering into a moral universe in which I would be related to every other rational being, and in which…”Thomas Merton
- “The intellectual climate of the 1970s, for which the 1950s had already paved the way, contributed to this. A…”Pope Benedict XVI
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Books by Simone Weil
Oppression et liberté
1978
The Simone Weil reader
1985