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This goes to the heart of Weil’s enterprise: the corollary to another’s needs is our obligation to recognize them, regardless of conditions.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
“Never has the individual been so completely delivered up to a blind collectivity, and never have men been less capable, not only of subordinating their actions to their thoughts, but even of thinking. Such terms as oppressors and oppressed, the idea of classes—all that... See more
Novelist and mystic Romaine Rolland says, “There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.”
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
This goes to the heart of Weil’s enterprise: the corollary to another’s needs is our obligation to recognize them, regardless of conditions.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
Weil reminded her students of a simple truth: “If one stops oneself from thinking of all this, one makes oneself an accomplice of what is happening. One has to do something quite different: assume one’s place in this system of things and do something about it.”
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
French philosopher Simone Weil encourages us to search the root cause:
"All sins are attempts to fill voids."
Socialism will not even be conceivable as long as science has not been stripped of its mystery.
Simone Weil • Oppression and Liberty
In the subordination of society to the individual lies the definition of true democracy and that of socialism as well.