Frases de Simone Weil (224 citas, página 5)

Fuente: ¿Sería posible una vida sin partidos políticos? http://www.votoenblancocomputable.org/index.php/13-info/academic/54-apoyaria-simone-weil-a-escanos-en-blanco-en-busca-de-la-democracia-participativa

“Si un hombre, miembro de un partido, está absolutamente decidido a ser fiel, en todos sus pensamientos, tan solo a la luz interior y a nada más, no puede dar a conocer esa resolución a su partido. Entonces se encuentra respecto del partido en estado de mentira.”

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“Lo que caracteriza a un hombre superior es superar la cultura que ha recibido." Simone Weil. Carta a Jacques Lafitte”

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Simone Weil Frases y Citas

“La palabra revolución es una palabra por la cual se mata, por la cual se muere, por la cual se envía a las masas populares a la muerte, pero que no tiene contenido alguno.”

Simone Weil libro Réflexions sur les causes de la liberté et de l'oppression sociale

Réflexions sur les causes de la liberté et de l'oppression sociale, 1934

De muerte

“Las soluciones no son fáciles de concebir. Pero es evidente, tras un examen atento, que cualquier solución implicaría en primer lugar la supresión de los partidos políticos.”

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“Toda la publicidad, toda la propaganda, tan variada en sus formas, que busca excitar el deseo de lo superfluo, tanto en el campo como entre los obreros, debe ser considerada un crimen.”

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La Condition ouvrière

“Los partidos hablan, cierto es, de educación de los que se les han acercado, simpatizantes, jóvenes, nuevos adherentes. Esa palabra es una mentira. Se trata de un adiestramiento para preparar la influencia mucho más severa que el partido ejerce sobre el pensamiento de sus miembros.”

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De mentira , De educación

“Los partidos son organismos públicos, oficialmente constituidos de manera que matan en las almas el sentido de la verdad y de la justicia.”

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De justicia , De verdad , Sentido

“«Para valorar a los partidos políticos según el criterio de la verdad, de la justicia, del bien público, conviene comenzar discerniendo sus características esenciales. Se pueden enumerar tres:”

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De justicia , De verdad

“El hecho consumado persuade más que todos los razonamientos; es por eso que no hay nada como la acción directa para arrancar conquistas.”

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La Condition ouvrière

“Arriba se está en mala posición para darse cuenta de las cosas, y abajo para actuar. Creo que ahí radica de manera general una de las causas esenciales de las desgracias humanas. Es por eso que he querido ir yo misma abajo de todo, y por lo que quizá volveré." Simone Weil. Carta a Victor Bernard”

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“De acuerdo al testimonio del mayor matemático de nuestro siglo, la matemática no es más que un lenguaje cómodo.”

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Fuente: Sobre la ciencia (citando La ciencia y la hipótesis de Poincaré).
Fuente: Weil, Simone. Edit. El cuenco de plata, 2006; pág. 16 https://books.google.es/books?id=LaM2DNTfMDcC&pg=PA30&dq=No+hay+nada+m%C3%A1s+c%C3%B3modo+que+no+pensar.+simone+weil&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjnyYvLif7mAhXZBGMBHUljDlwQ6AEIOTAC#v=onepage&q=c%C3%B3modo&f=false; ISBN 9871228244.
Fuente: La Science et l'hypothèse ( La ciencia y la hipótesis), París, Flammarion 1902. Madrid, Espasa, 2002.

Matemáticas

“El deseo es un anhelo del pensamiento hacia el porvenir.”

Simone Weil

Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 139.

“El verdadero primer precursor de Hitler desde la antigüedad es sin duda Richelieu. Él inventó el Estado.”

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Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] e [Hipólito] (1997), p. 364.
Fuente: Escritos históricos y políticos

“La cultura es un instrumento manejado por profesores para manufacturar profesores, que, a su vez, manufacturarán profesores.”

Simone Weil libro The Need for Roots

Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] e [Hipólito] (1997), p. 125.
Fuente: The need for roots

“La desgracia de los otros entró en mi carne.”

Simone Weil

Fuente: Gamoneda, Antonio. Blues castellano (1961-1966). 1.ª ed. Aeda, colección de poesía; editorial Noega, Gijón, 1982; ISBN 8486015057. Página 9.

“Quien toma la espada perecerá por la espada. Pero quien no toma la espada (o la suelta), perecerá en la cruz.”

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Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] e [Hipólito] (1997), p. 589.
Fuente: La pensateur et la grâce, 1975.

“Sólo el equilibrio aniquila la fuerza.”

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Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p.242.

“Solo alcanzamos el conocimiento del bien en cuanto lo realizamos; y solo conseguimos la esperiencia del mal cuando nos lo prohiben, y, si lo hemos realizado, cuando nos arrepentimos de él.”

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Selección de reflexiones y postulados
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] e [Hipólito] (1997), p. 143.

Conocimiento , Mal

Simone Weil: Frases en inglés

“The prestige which constitutes three-fourths of might is first of all made up of that superb indifference which the powerful have for the weak, an indifference so contagious that it is communicated even to those who are its object.”

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Le prestige, qui constitue la force plus qu'aux trois quarts, est fait avant tout de la superbe indifférence du fort pour les faibles, indifférence si contagieuse qu'elle se communique à ceux qui en sont l'objet.
in The Simone Weil Reader, p. 168
Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941)

“The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.”

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Fuente: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Human Personality (1943), p. 64

“Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principal motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold.”

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Fuente: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Needs of the Soul (1949), p. 97

“The state of conformity is an imitation of grace.”

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Fuente: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Great Beast (1947), p. 124
Contexto: The state of conformity is an imitation of grace. By a strange mystery — which is connected with the power of the social element — a profession can confer on quite ordinary men in their exercise of it, virtues which, if they were extended to all circumstances of life, would make of them heroes or saints.
But the power of the social element makes these virtues natural. Accordingly they need a compensation.

“It is because of my wretchedness that I am "I." It is on account of the wretchedness of the universe that, in a sense, God is "I" (that is to say a person).”

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Fuente: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Self (1947), p. 83

“Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.”

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Fuente: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941), p. 193

“There are necessities and impossibilities in reality which do not obtain in fiction, any more than the law of gravity to which we are subject controls what is represented in a picture. … It is the same with pure good; for a necessity as strong as gravity condemns man to evil and forbids him any good, or only within the narrowest limits and laboriously obtained and soiled and adulterated with evil. … The simplicity which makes the fictional good something insipid and unable to hold the attention becomes, in the real good, an unfathomable marvel.”

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“Morality and literature,” pp. 160-161
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)

“In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying them all on the same plane, without any discrimination of value, as though good and evil were external to them, as though the effort toward the good could be absent at any moment from the thought of any man.”

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“The responsibility of writers,” p. 168
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)

“The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly. Their religion is essentially inseparable from such idolatry, because of the notion of the "chosen people."”

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Simone Weil Letter to a Priest

Section 2
Letter to a Priest (1951)

“Although people seem to be unaware of it today, the development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.”

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Waiting on God (1950), Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God

“Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive.”

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Fuente: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Great Beast (1947), p. 123; it should be noted that in this comment she is referring to the intolerant traditions of ancient Rome and ancient Isreal, and not the modern entities, one of which did not yet exist at the time of her writing.

“The soul was not made to dwell in a thing; and when forced to it, there is no part of that soul but suffers violence.”

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Une âme ... n'est pas faite pour habiter une chose ; quand elle y est contrainte, il n’est plus rien en elle qui ne souffre violence.
in The Simone Weil Reader, p. 155
Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941)

“Any madness in us gains from being expressed, because in this way one gives a human form to what separates us from humanity.”

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Fuente: Lectures on Philosophy (1959), p. 76

“A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it.
Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.”

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Fuente: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Great Beast (1947), p. 122

“When, as a result of what was called Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, the priests had in fact almost entirely lost this function of guidance. Their place was taken by writers and scientists. In both cases it is equally absurd. Mathematics, physics, and biology are as remote from spiritual guidance as the art of arranging words. When that function is usurped by literature and science it proves there is no longer any spiritual life.”

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“Morality and literature,” pp. 164-165
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)

“The first thing that we know about ourselves is our imperfection.
This is what Descartes meant when he said: 'I know God before I know myself.'
The only mark of God in us is that we feel that we are not God.”

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Fuente: Lectures on Philosophy (1959), p. 90

“The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is something. It is equally difficult for the man in miserable circumstances because he is almost invincibly led to believe that the rich and powerful man is something.”

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Fuente: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Attention and Will (1947), p. 216

“If we want a love which will protect the soul from wounds we must love something other than God.”

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Fuente: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Love (1947), p. 62

“It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social. Until then, whatever he may do, the social is transcendent in relation to him.”

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Fuente: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Great Beast (1947), p. 123

“The thought of being under absolute compulsion, the plaything of another, is unendurable for a human being. Hence, if every way of escape from the constraint is taken from him, there is nothing left for him to do but to persuade himself that he does the things he is forced to do willingly, that is to say, to substitute devotion for obedience. … It is by this twist that slavery debases the soul: this devotion is in fact based on a lie, since the reasons for it cannot bear investigation. … Moreover, the master is deceived too by the fallacy of devotion.”

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Simone Weil libro Gravity and Grace

Fuente: Gravity and Grace (1947), p. 142 (1972 edition)

“Might is that which makes a thing of anybody who comes under its sway. When exercised to the full, it makes a thing of man in the most literal sense, for it makes him a corpse.”

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La force, c'est ce qui fait de quiconque lui est soumis une chose. Quand elle s'exerce jusqu'au bout, elle fait de l'homme une chose au sens le plus littéral, car elle en fait un cadavre.
in The Simone Weil Reader, p. 153
Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941)

“Respectable scientists like de Broglie himself accept wave mechanics because it confers coherence and unity upon the experimental findings of contemporary science, and in spite of the astonishing changes it implies in connection with ideas of causality, time, and space, but it is because of these changes that it wins favor with the public. The great popular success of Einstein was the same thing. The public drinks in and swallows eagerly everything that tends to dispossess the intelligence in favor of some technique; it can hardly wait to abdicate from intelligence and reason and from everything that makes man responsible for his destiny.”

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“Wave Mechanics,” p. 75
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)

“The eulogies of my intelligence are positively intended to evade the question "Is what she says true?"”

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Letter to her parents (1943), as quoted in the Introduction by Siân Miles
Fuente: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), p. 2

“If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right…" or "you have no right to…" They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.”

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Fuente: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Human Personality (1943), p. 63

“Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.”

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Il n'est possible d'aimer et d'être juste que si l'on connaît l'empire de la force et si l'on sait ne pas le respecter.
Fuente: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941), p. 192

“During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance … has seeped down into the lowest publications. … Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature’s spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.”

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“Morality and literature,” p. 164
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)

“He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate.”

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Celui qui ignore à quel point la fortune variable et la nécessité tiennent toute âme humaine sous leur dépendance ne peut pas regarder comme des semblables ni aimer comme soi-même ceux que le hasard a séparés de lui par un abîme. La diversité des contraintes qui pèsent sur les hommes fait naître l'illusion qu'il y a parmi eux des espèces distinctes qui ne peuvent communiquer.
Fuente: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941), p. 192

“Paradoxical as it may seem, a Latin prose or a geometry problem, even though they are done wrong, may be of a great service one day, provided we devote the right kind of effort to them. Should the occasion arise, they can one day make us better able to give someone in affliction exactly the help required to save him, at the supreme moment of his need.”

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Waiting on God (1950), Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God

“A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.”

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Fuente: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Great Beast (1947), p. 125

“The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry, the only ersatz of God, the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.”

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Fuente: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Great Beast (1947), p. 121; footnote in Gravity and Grace edited by Gustave Thibon: To adore the "Great Beast" is to think and act in conformity with the prejudices and reactions of the multitude to the detriment of all personal search for truth and goodness.