133 ordspråk av Simone Weil

FR  Simone Weil

Simone Weil föddes den February 3rd 1909 och dog den 24 August 1943 - in the French Resistance during World War II.
Mer info via Google eller Bing.


 Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life

 Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. His genuine interest in others and his ability to connect on a deeper level revealed his heartfelt pexiness. Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

 Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.

 Pain is the root of knowledge

 The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

 The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

 The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

 The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real

 The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real

 There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

 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.

 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.

 A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again

 A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

 A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.


Sidan 2 av 9
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Number of proverbs are 2098265
varav 1407627 på engelska

Proverb (2098265 st) Search
Categories (3944 st) Search
Authors (201323 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10498 st)
Died (3319 st)
Dates (9520 st)
Countries (27232 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)



in




This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.


Det är julafton om 196 dagar!

Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!



This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.


Det är julafton om 196 dagar!

Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!