Simone Weil Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan virtue, if these two words are compatible. The word pagan, when applied to Rome, early possesses the significance charged with horror which the early Christian controversialists gave it. The Romans really were an atheistic and idolatrous people; not idolatrous with regard to images made of stone or bronze, but idolatrous with regard to themselves. It is this idolatry of self which they have bequeathed to us in the form of patriotism.

  Simone Weil

  Christian, Children, Inspiration

  "Prelude to Politics (1943)". "The Simone Weil Reader". Book edited by George A. Panichas, p. 220, 1957.

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

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Real

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

• In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Power, Order

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.128, Psychology Press

• The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

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  Justice, Diversity, Stronger

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.50, Routledge

• To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

  Simone Weil

  Solitude, Wish, Virtue

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.67, Psychology Press

• The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

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  Soul, Transformation, Virtue

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.37, Routledge

• The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.

  Simone Weil

  Opposites, Soul, Virtue

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.102, Psychology Press

• 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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