#simone weill

[jrich103]

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. — Simone Weil

[dk-thrive]

Nothing is so beautiful and wonderful, nothing is so continually fresh and surprising, so full of sweet and perpetual ecstasy, as the good.

— Simone Weil, On science, necessity, and the love of God;: Essays (Oxford University Press; January 1, 1968) (via Alive on All Channels)

[wrathofgnon]

“The degree of respect owing to human collectivities is avery high one, for several reasons. To start with, each is unique, and, if destroyed, cannot be replaced. One sack of corn can always be substituted for another sack of corn. The food which a collectivity supplies for the souls of those who form part of it has no equivalent in the entire universe. Secondly, because of its continuity, a collectivity is already moving forward into the future. It contains food, not only for the souls of the living, but also for the souls of beings yet unborn which are to come into the world during the immediately succeeding centuries. Lastly, due to this same continuity, a collectivity has its roots in the past. It constitutes the sole agency for preserving the spiritual treasures accumulated by the dead, the sole transmitting agency by means of which the dead can speak to the living. And the sole earthly reality which is directly connected with the eternal destiny of Man is the irradiating light of those who have managed to become fully conscious of this destiny, transmitted from generation to generation.” — Simone Weill

[advokatasbauza]

Neprotinga norėti būti suprastai kitų, jei pati savęs aiškiai nesupranti. - Simone Weil -

[orpheusz]

La monotonie est ce qu'il y a de plus beau ou de plus affreux. De plus beau si c'est un reflet de l'éternité. De plus affreux si c'est l'indice d'une perpétuité sans changement. Temps dépassé ou temps stérilisé. Le cercle est symbole de la belle monotonie, l'oscillation pendulaire de la monotonie atroce.

Simone Weill, La pesanteur et la grâce.

[giftfox]

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Simone Weill, excerpt from “Void & Compensation”

[lmv-h]

La souffrance et la jouissance comme sources de savoir. Le serpent a offert la connaissance à Adam et à Eve. Les sirènes ont offert la connaissance à Ulysse. Ces histoires enseignent que l’âme se perd en cherchant la connaissance dans le plaisir. Pourquoi? Le plaisir peut-être est innocent, à condition qu’on y cherche pas la connaissance. Il n’est permis de la chercher que dans la souffrance.

La Pesanteur et la Grâce (Le Malheur) - Simone Weil

[asfaltics]

ruins to the second power.

* back endpaper (details; levels 10 1.00 255; watermark blurred) Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-99 *). Vermischte Schriften : Neue Original Ausgabe. Mit dem Portrait, Facsimile und einer Ansicht des Geburtshauses des Verfassers, Volume 2 (Dieterich, 1844) University of Michigan copy, digitized July 14, 2005 same (Michigan) copy, minus alas the desert-scape above, but opening to a page of curves at archive.org

And now the artificial ruins were gradually becoming natural ones. Ruins to the second power. ex Aphorisms, in The Lichtenberg Reader (translated, edited and introduced by Franz H. Mautner and Henry Hatfield, 1959) : 86

and, because Simone Weil in mind — To draw back before the object we are pursuing. Only what is indirect is effective... ex Simone Weil, The Notebooks of, translated from the French by Arthur Wills (1956, 2004) : 169 (previously quoted)

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