What did Simone Weil mean by: We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present. - Simone Weil Philosopher · France Copy
+ To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Simone Weil, Innocent, Weight, 0 - Simone Weil Philosopher · France
+ It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Simone Weil, Misery, Secret, 0 - Simone Weil Philosopher · France
+ The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Simone Weil, Essentials, Religion, 0 - Simone Weil Philosopher · France
+ Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Simone Weil, Peace, 0 - Simone Weil Philosopher · France
+ Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Simone Weil, Command, Love, 0 - Simone Weil Philosopher · France
+ True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Simone Weil, Definitions, Study, 0 - Simone Weil Philosopher · France
+ In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Simone Weil, Time, 0 - Simone Weil Philosopher · France
+ The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Simone Weil, Doctors, Saint, 0 - Simone Weil Philosopher · France
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown! - William Cowper Poet · England
Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
