Simone Weil Quotes


Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.


Citations

Weil, Simone. Gravity and Grace. Translated by Emma Craufurd, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1952, p. 200.

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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
  • Born: February 3, 1909
  • Died: August 24, 1943
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Philosopher

Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. The mathematician André Weil was her brother.