What did Simone Weil mean by: The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State. Simone Weil Philosopher · France Copy
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Forgiveness, Identity, Self-awareness, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Acceptance, Beauty, Reality, 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
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Direction, Sin, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Grace, Resilience, Transformation, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Danger, Displacement, Perpetuation, 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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Enlightenment, Existence, Nourishment, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony. Jenny Colgan
the disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God. Jeremiah Burroughs Preacher · England
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality. Jeremy Bentham Philosopher · England
