“The essence of created things is to be intermediaries.”

— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947

About Simone Weil

1909 – 1943

French philosopher and political activist.

“The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.”

“I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.”

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”

“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness.”

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”