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Simone Weil


Born
in Paris, France
February 03, 1909

Died
August 24, 1943

Genre
Religion & Spirituality, Politics, Philosophy

Influences
Plato, Socrates, René Guénon, Alain, ...more


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". ...more

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Gravity and Grace
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4.27 avg rating — 3,623 ratings — published 1947 — 132 editions
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Waiting for God
4.17 avg rating — 2,779 ratings — published 1950 — 104 editions
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On the Abolition of All Pol...
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4.04 avg rating — 1,731 ratings — published 1957 — 7 editions
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The Need for Roots: Prelude...
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War and the Iliad
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Oppression and Liberty
4.08 avg rating — 851 ratings — published 1934 — 90 editions
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The Iliad, or The Poem of F...
4.22 avg rating — 738 ratings — published 1940 — 18 editions
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La persona e il sacro
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Simone Weil: An Anthology
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Letter to a Priest
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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
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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.”
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“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
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