Simone Weil: Frasi in inglese
Simone Weil era scrittore, filosofo. Frasi in inglese.“He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.”
Simone Weil libro L'ombra e la grazia
Origine: Gravity and Grace
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”
The Pre-War Notebook (1933-1939), published in First and Last Notebooks (1970) edited by Richard Rees
“Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.”
Simone Weil libro Attesa di Dio
Origine: Waiting for God
“The most important part of education — to teach the meaning of to know”
in the scientific sense
The last statement in her notebook
Waiting on God (1950)
“If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.”
Simone Weil libro L'ombra e la grazia
Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Detachment (1947), p. 260
Origine: Gravity and Grace
Simone Weil libro Attesa di Dio
Origine: Waiting for God
Simone Weil Letter to a Priest
Letter to a Priest (1951)
Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Love (1947), p. 270
“Action is the pointer which shows the balance. We must not touch the pointer but the weight.”
Simone Weil libro L'ombra e la grazia
L’action est l’aiguille indicatrice de la balance. Il ne faut pas toucher à l’aiguille, mais aux poids.
La pesanteur et la grâce (1948), p. 57
Origine: Gravity and Grace (1947), p. 97
“Alexander is to a peasant proprietor what Don Juan is to a happily married husband.”
Simone Weil libro L'ombra e la grazia
Origine: Gravity and Grace (1947), p. 78, (1972 edition)
Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941), p. 181
Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Contradiction (1947), p. 240