Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. – Simone Weil
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. – Simone Weil
Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. – Simone Weil
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. – Simone Weil
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. – Simone Weil
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. – Simone Weil