Weil

Famous quotes containing the word weil:

“Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don’t know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)