Simone Weil

Also known as Simone Adolphine Weil

French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)

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Simone Weil was a French philosopher and writer who lived during the early 20th century and engaged with questions about social justice, spirituality, and human suffering. Her work matters because she developed influential ideas about labor, faith, and morality that continue to shape philosophical and theological thought today.

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Born: 3 February 1909
Died: 24 August 1943
Works: 134

Top works

Simone Weil
Pensamientos desordenados acerca del amor a Dios
האם אנו נאבקים למען הצדק?
L'enracinement
نامه به ىک کشىش

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Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: France
Active from: 1909-02-03
Active to: 1943-08-24

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Listeners: 44
Total plays: 291

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5 total works indexed

2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
· 2018 · cited 8,155x
A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth
· 1992 · cited 7,878x
Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution
· 2009 · cited 7,513x
Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,740x
Ferroptosis: A Regulated Cell Death Nexus Linking Metabolism, Redox Biology, and Disease
· 2017 · cited 6,582x

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Quotes

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”
“The prospects of revolution seem therefore quite restricted. For can a revolution avoid war? It is, however, on this feeble chance that we must stake everything or abandon all hope. An advanced country will not encounter, in the case of revolution, the difficulties which in backward Russia served as a base for the barbarous regime of Stalin. But a war of any scope will give rise to others as formidable.”
“I have sometimes told myself that if only there were a notice on church doors forbidding entry to anyone with an income above a certain figure, and a low one, I would be converted at once.”
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
“Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science. And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.”
“La culture est un instrument manié par des professeurs pour fabriquer des professeurs qui à leur tour fabriqueront des professeurs.”

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Commons category: Simone Weil
date of death: 1943-08-24
date of birth: 1909-02-03
name in native language: Simone Weil
end of work period: 1943-08-24
Commons Creator page: Simone Weil
pseudonym: S. Galois
P8168: Ophiacantha metallacta
P12749: Kurt Huber

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Simone Adolphine Weil (/veɪ/; French: [simɔn adɔlfin vɛj]; 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, mystic and political activist. Despite her short life, her ideas concerning religion, spirituality and politics have remained widely influential in contemporary philosophy.

She was born in Paris to an Alsatian Jewish family. Her elder brother, André, would later become a renowned mathematician. After her graduation from formal education, Weil became a teacher. She taught intermittently throughout the 1930s, taking several breaks because of poor health and in order to devote herself to political activism. She assisted in the trade union movement, taking the side of the anarchists known as the Durruti Column in the Spanish Civil War. During a twelve-month period she worked as a labourer, mostly in car factories, so that she could better understand the working class.