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Simone Weil - From the Art category:
A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it. (Simone Weil)
Simone Weil - From the Construction category:
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. (Simone Weil)
Simone Weil - From the Culture category:
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors. (Simone Weil)
Simone Weil - From the Drunkenness category:
Imaginary good is boring. Real good is always new, marvelous, and intoxicating. (Simone Weil)
Simone Weil - From the Faith category:
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. (Simone Weil)
Simone Weil - From the Future category:
The future is made of the same stuff as the present. (Simone Weil)
Simone Weil - From the Generosity category:
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. (Simone Weil)
Simone Weil - From the Imagination category:
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. (Simone Weil)
Simone Weil - From the Immortality category:
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous. (Simone Weil)
Simone Weil - From the Perfection category:
A work of art has an author, and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is essentially anonymous about it. (Simone Weil)
Simone Weil - From the Suffering category:
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. (Simone Weil)
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