Simone Weil najznámejšie citáty
Simone Weil: Citáty v angličtine
“Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.”
Zdroj: Lectures on Philosophy
“The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.”
Simone Weil kniha Waiting for God
Zdroj: Waiting for God
“Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”
Simone Weil kniha Gravity and Grace
Zdroj: Gravity and Grace
“Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.”
Varianta: All sins are attempts to fill voids.
“He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.”
Simone Weil kniha Gravity and Grace
Zdroj: Gravity and Grace
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”
The Pre-War Notebook (1933-1939), published in First and Last Notebooks (1970) edited by Richard Rees
“Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.”
Simone Weil kniha Waiting for God
Zdroj: Waiting for God
“The most important part of education — to teach the meaning of to know”
in the scientific sense
The last statement in her notebook
Waiting on God (1950)
“If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.”
Simone Weil kniha Gravity and Grace
Zdroj: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Detachment (1947), p. 260
Zdroj: Gravity and Grace
Simone Weil kniha Waiting for God
Zdroj: Waiting for God
Simone Weil Letter to a Priest
Letter to a Priest (1951)
Zdroj: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Love (1947), p. 270
“Action is the pointer which shows the balance. We must not touch the pointer but the weight.”
Simone Weil kniha Gravity and Grace
L’action est l’aiguille indicatrice de la balance. Il ne faut pas toucher à l’aiguille, mais aux poids.
La pesanteur et la grâce (1948), p. 57
Zdroj: Gravity and Grace (1947), p. 97
“Alexander is to a peasant proprietor what Don Juan is to a happily married husband.”
Simone Weil kniha Gravity and Grace
Zdroj: Gravity and Grace (1947), p. 78, (1972 edition)
Zdroj: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941), p. 181
Zdroj: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Contradiction (1947), p. 240
