Simone Weil: Frasi in inglese
Simone Weil era scrittore, filosofo. Frasi in inglese.
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“Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.”
Lectures in philosophy [Leçons de philosophie] (1959) as translated by Hugh Price p. 103
Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation (1943)
Contesto: If anyone possesses this faculty, then his attention is in reality directed beyond the world, whether he is aware of it or not.
The link which attaches the human being to the reality outside the world is, like the reality itself, beyond the reach of human faculties. The respect that it makes us feel as soon as it is recognized cannot be shown to us by evidence or testimony.
Simone Weil
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Attesa di Dio
Waiting on God (1950), Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God
Origine: Waiting for God
Waiting on God (1950), Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God
“But a war of any scope will give rise to others as formidable.”
"Reflections on War" (1933); also in Formative Writings (2009)
Contesto: The prospects of revolution seem therefore quite restricted. For can a revolution avoid war? It is, however, on this feeble chance that we must stake everything or abandon all hope. An advanced country will not encounter, in the case of revolution, the difficulties which in backward Russia served as a base for the barbarous regime of Stalin. But a war of any scope will give rise to others as formidable.
“Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.”
Simone Weil
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L'ombra e la grazia
Origine: Gravity and Grace
“We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.”
Simone Weil
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Attesa di Dio
Origine: Waiting for God
“There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.”
As quoted in The New Christianity (1967) edited by William Robert Miller
"Faiths of Meditation; Contemplation of the divine" as translated in The Simone Weil Reader (1957) edited by George A. Panichas, p. 417
Contesto: Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong.
“The human soul has need of truth and of freedom of expression.”
Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation (1943), Statement Of Obligations
Contesto: The human soul has need of truth and of freedom of expression.
The need for truth requires that intellectual culture should be universally accessible, and that it should be able to be acquired in an environment neither physically remote nor psychologically alien.
Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Great Beast (1947), p. 123
Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation (1943)
Contesto: It is the aim of public life to arrange that all forms of power are entrusted, so far as possible, to men who effectively consent to be bound by the obligation towards all human beings which lies upon everyone, and who understand the obligation.
Law is the quality of the permanent provisions for making this aim effective.
“From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.”
Simone Weil
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La prima radice
The Need for Roots (1949), p. 292
Contesto: Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science. And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.