Simone Weil: Citations en anglais
Simone Weil était philosophe française. Citations en anglais.“He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.”
Simone Weil livre Gravity and Grace
Source: Gravity and Grace
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”
The Pre-War Notebook (1933-1939), published in First and Last Notebooks (1970) edited by Richard Rees
“Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.”
Simone Weil livre Waiting for God
Source: Waiting for God
“The most important part of education — to teach the meaning of to know”
in the scientific sense
The last statement in her notebook
Waiting on God (1950)
“If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.”
Simone Weil livre Gravity and Grace
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Detachment (1947), p. 260
Source: Gravity and Grace
Simone Weil livre Waiting for God
Source: Waiting for God
Simone Weil Letter to a Priest
Letter to a Priest (1951)
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Love (1947), p. 270
“Action is the pointer which shows the balance. We must not touch the pointer but the weight.”
Simone Weil livre Gravity and Grace
L’action est l’aiguille indicatrice de la balance. Il ne faut pas toucher à l’aiguille, mais aux poids.
La pesanteur et la grâce (1948), p. 57
Source: Gravity and Grace (1947), p. 97
“Alexander is to a peasant proprietor what Don Juan is to a happily married husband.”
Simone Weil livre Gravity and Grace
Source: Gravity and Grace (1947), p. 78, (1972 edition)
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941), p. 181
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Contradiction (1947), p. 240