Weil

Famous quotes containing the word weil:

“When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)