Simone Weil

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born

February 03, 1909 in Paris, France

died

August 24, 1943

gender

female

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Religion & Spirituality, Politics, Philosophy

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Simone Weil was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist. Weil was born in Paris to Alsatian agnostic Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany. Her brilliance, ascetic lifestyle, introversion, and eccentricity limited her ability to mix with others, but not to teach and participate in political movements of her time. She wrote extensively with both insight and breadth about political movements of which she was a part and later about spiritual mysticism. Weil biographer Gabriella Fiori writes that Weil was "a moral genius in the orbit of ethics, a genius of immense revolutionary range".

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Average rating: 4.18 · 1,015 ratings · 106 reviews · 69 distinct works

	Waiting for God 4.12 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 1959 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Gravity and Grace 4.40 avg rating — 242 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	War and the Iliad by Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff 4.16 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind by Simone Weil, Arthur Wills (Translator), T.S. Eliot (Preface by) 3.81 avg rating — 59 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	Simone Weil: An Anthology by Simone Weil, Sian Miles 4.19 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Letter to a Priest 3.84 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Simone Weil Reader by Simone Weil, George A. Panichas (Editor) 4.12 avg rating — 40 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Oppression and Liberty 3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1978 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Iliad, or The Poem of Force 4.61 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1985	My rating:
	The Notebooks of Simone Weil by Simone Weil, Arthur Wills (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1956 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
― Simone Weil

tags: human-nature

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“A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.”
― Simone Weil, Waiting for God

tags: feminism , mysticism

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“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
― Simone Weil

tags: ethics , evil , good , morality , reality

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