Weil

Famous quotes containing the word weil:

“Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)