Quotes by Weil, Simone

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of >>

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on >>

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain en >>

Quotations about Biography

The surrounding that householders crave are glorified autobiographies. >>

Biography is one of the new terrors of death. >>

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached >>

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

Weil, Simone