Quotes by Weil, Simone

The future is made of the same stuff as the present. >>

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. >>

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the ins >>

Quotations about Intelligence and Intellectuals

Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silenc >>

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. >>

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that >>

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone