Quotes by Weil, Simone

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and s >>

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suff >>

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. >>

Quotations about Philosophers and Philosophy

I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writin >>

Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. >>

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of >>

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

Weil, Simone