What did Simone Weil mean by: There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is. Simone Weil Philosopher · France Copy
A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Importance, Recognition, Value, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Balance, Innocence, Weight, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Patience, Preparation, Strategy, 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
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Choice, Growth, Nature, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Connection, Empathy, Existence, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Contradiction, Error, Truth, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simone Weil, Attention, Beauty, Reality, 0 Simone Weil Philosopher · France
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it. Read explanation Jennifer Stone Actress · USA
A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom