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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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- “We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even los…”Simone Weil
- “Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even oneself -- co…”Simone Weil
- “Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels w…”Simone Weil
- “If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the…”Simone Weil
Explore Serenity
- “Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.”Isaac Barrow
- “We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be ser…”Swami Satchidananda
- “The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.”Sylvia Kristel
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Books by Simone Weil
Oppression et liberté
1978
The Simone Weil reader
1985