Le prestige, qui constitue la force plus qu'aux trois quarts, est fait avant tout de la superbe indifférence du fort pour les faibles, indifférence si contagieuse qu'elle se communique à ceux qui en sont l'objet.
in The Simone Weil Reader, p. 168
Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941)
Simone Weil: Frasi in inglese (pagina 7)
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Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Human Personality (1943), p. 64
Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Needs of the Soul (1949), p. 97
“The state of conformity is an imitation of grace.”
Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Great Beast (1947), p. 124
Contesto: The state of conformity is an imitation of grace. By a strange mystery — which is connected with the power of the social element — a profession can confer on quite ordinary men in their exercise of it, virtues which, if they were extended to all circumstances of life, would make of them heroes or saints.
But the power of the social element makes these virtues natural. Accordingly they need a compensation.
Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Self (1947), p. 83
Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941), p. 193
“Morality and literature,” pp. 160-161
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)
“The responsibility of writers,” p. 168
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)
Waiting on God (1950), Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God
Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Great Beast (1947), p. 123; it should be noted that in this comment she is referring to the intolerant traditions of ancient Rome and ancient Isreal, and not the modern entities, one of which did not yet exist at the time of her writing.
Une âme ... n'est pas faite pour habiter une chose ; quand elle y est contrainte, il n’est plus rien en elle qui ne souffre violence.
in The Simone Weil Reader, p. 155
Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941)
Origine: Lectures on Philosophy (1959), p. 76
Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Great Beast (1947), p. 122
“Morality and literature,” pp. 164-165
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)
Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Attention and Will (1947), p. 216
“If we want a love which will protect the soul from wounds we must love something other than God.”
Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Love (1947), p. 62
Origine: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Great Beast (1947), p. 123