More from Simone Weil

  1. 'Mathematics and the Love of God: An Introduction to the thought of Simone Weil' by Scott Taylor (a PDF document)
  2. 'Simone Weil: A saint for our time?' - from The New Criterion
  3. In trying to understand her, we must not be distracted ... by considering how far, and at what points we agree or disagree. ... I cannot co…
  4. The only great spirit of our time.
  5. Paradoxical as it may seem, a Latin prose or a geometry problem, even though they are done wrong, may be of a great service one day, provid…
  6. The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all …
  7. We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them. Man cannot discover them by his own powers, an…
  8. Above all our thought should be empty, waiting, not seeking anything, but ready to receive in its naked truth the object that is to penetra…

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