Simone Adolphine Weil:
(Paris, France, 3 February 1909 – Ashford, Kent, England, 24 August 1943).
French Jewish philosopher and political activist.
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Loving the truth means enduring emptiness, and thus accepting death. Truth is on the side of death.
The weapons of a sovereign state apparatus cannot set anyone free.
Purity means that you can quietly think about filth.
All our brothers need nothing in this world but people who are able to pay attention to them.
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
