Simone Weil Quotes
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Weil, Simone. Gravity and Grace. Translated by Emma Craufurd, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1952, p. 160.
In an interview with a Norwegian magazine, the Eco stated that he had based his novel, “Foucault’s Pendulum”, on Chesterton’s epigram: “When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.” See related quote.
Buckley was a very intelligent man who was very religious. It is ironic that while “conservatives” of the late 20th century tended to be religious conservatives, many of the conservative heroes were strongly anti-religious like Rand.
Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. The mathematician André Weil was her brother.
