Simone Weil
Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a French philosopher, revolutionary, poet, journalist, playwright, and scholar. She was active in the French Renaissance during World War II. She is known for her social philosophy and mystic slant in her works. Her famous works include Waiting for God and Gravity and Grace.Wisdom & Quotes
- A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.
- We cannot contemplate without terror the extent of the evil which man can do and endure.
- Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
- Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
- Attachment is a manufacturer of illusions and whosoever wants reality ought to be detached.
- A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
- Future is made of the same stuff as the present.
- Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
- A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
- Distance is the soul of reality.
- Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.
- Man alone can enslave man.
Mahmoud Mohammed Taha