What did Simone Weil mean by: Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. Simone Weil Philosopher · France Copy
The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Beauty, Experimentation, Incarnation, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Alienation, Morality, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Awareness, Ignorance, Perception, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Attention, Mindfulness, Self-improvement, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Eternity, Hell, Time, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Adaptability, Justice, Loyalty, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Behavior, Character, Integrity, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Divine, Misery, Pleasure, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. Read explanation Jean Fautrier Painter · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. Read explanation Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
