Simone Weil Quotes About Study

Quotes about: Study

• The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

  Simone Weil

  Running, Learning, Breathing

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.81, Routledge

• True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

  Simone Weil

  World, Definitions, Study

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.258, Routledge

• The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode in foreign politics when it is especially an act of internal politics and the most atrocious act of all . . . Since the directing apparatus has no other way of fighting the enemy than by sending its own soldiers, under compulsion, to their death-the war of one state against another state resolves itself into a war of the state and the military apparatus against its own people.

  Simone Weil

  Military, War, Fighting

• The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, War, Errors

• The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

  Simone Weil

  Running, Real, Teaching

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.34, Routledge

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

  Simone Weil

  Education, Real, Attention

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.32, Routledge

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