Simone Weil285 definitions
Simone Weil
Simone Weil
1909 – 1943
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The Academic (n.) wields culture as an instrument to manufacture academics, who, when their turn comes, will manufacture academics.
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The Apparatus (n.) is (as the bureaucracy, the police and the military) mankind's greatest adversary: It tramples all human values.
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Art (n.) has no immediate future on account of the fact that all art is collective and collective life is no more.
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Art (n.) is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: To construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Atheism (n.) is alone able to serve God in a way that amounts to one of the most exquisite pleasures of human love... namely, to serve the loved one without his knowing it.
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Atheism (n.) is often just faith and love concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Atheism (n.) is of two kinds. One of these is a purification of the notion of God.
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Atheism (n.) is often a more sincere position than than that of the religious man. If two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.
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Attachment (n.) is a manufacturer of illusion... whoever wants reality ought to be detached.
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Attention (n.) is synonymous with prayer when it is absolute and unmixed.
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Attention (n.) is a bringer of truth, beauty, and goodness when brought fully to bare on an object. Thus, teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act.
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Attention (n.) is nothing but humility.
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Attention (n.) is synonymous with the highest ecstasy when at its fullest.
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Attention (n.) is a kind of communion with things. To look at the sky on a clear night with concentrated attention is to allow all of one's thoughts to disappear and the stars to enter into one's soul.
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Attention (n.) is that faculty whose development is the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.
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Attentiveness (n.) is the heart of prayer.
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Barbarism (n.) begins when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization. This very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.
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A Battle (n.) is fought not by the planning man, the man of strategy, or the man acting on the resolution taken. It is fought and decided by men deprived of these faculties, men who have dropped either to the level of inert matter and pure passivity, or blind force and pure momentum.
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Beauty (n.) is linked to vulnerability because vulnerability is a mark of existence.
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Beauty (n.) is one of the only two things (along with suffering) that pierce the human heart.