Quotes by Weil, Simone

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

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the E >>

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded >>

Quotations about Reality

A theory must be tempered with reality. >>

This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau id >>

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than t >>

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.

Weil, Simone