Simone WeilA collection of 38 posts

Communication

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the ...

Best

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ...

Beauty

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth beauty liberty and equality are...

Beauty

Beauty always promises but never gives anything.

Art

Most works of art like most wines ought to be consumed in the district of thei...

Art

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy li...

Loneliness

We can only know one thing about God – that he is what we are not. Our wre...