Simone Weil Quotes About Greek

Quotes about: Greek

• I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

  Simone Weil

  Christian, Civilization, Aggravation

• School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek." They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.

  Simone Weil

  Prayer, Children, School

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

• We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

  Simone Weil

  Greek, Matter, Firsts

  Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

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