Simone Weil Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

  Simone Weil

  Moving, Cutting, Suffering

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.28, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

  Simone Weil

  Mind, Language, Prison

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.

  Simone Weil

  Intimate Conversation, Names, Two

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.19, Routledge

• The world is God's language to us.

  Simone Weil

  God, World, Language

  Simone Weil, Arthur Wills (1956). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.480, Psychology Press

• One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is established just because proof is not enough. It is this characteristic of language, at once indispensable and inadequate, which shows the reality of the external world. Most people hardly ever realize this, because it is rare that the very same man thinks and puts his thought into action.

  Simone Weil

  Reality, Men, Thinking

• If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

  Simone Weil

  Past, Europe, Civilization

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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