Simone Weil Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Lying, Giving

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

• Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Real

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

  Simone Weil

  Doctors, Saint, Needs

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.29, Routledge

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