What did Simone Weil mean by: The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. Simone Weil Philosopher · France Copy
If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Paradise, Perspective, Suffering, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Dedication, Passion, Sacrifice, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
Power … is the supreme end for all those who have not understood. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Power, Supremacy, Understanding, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Escape, Possession, Renunciation, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Genius, Humility, Thought, 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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Beauty, Christ, Matter, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Altruism, Compassion, Empathy, 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
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. 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
