Simone Weil Quotes


Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.


Citations

Weil, Simone. Waiting for God. Translated by Emma Craufurd, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1951, p. 207.

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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
  • Born: February 3, 1909
  • Died: August 24, 1943
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Philosopher

Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. The mathematician André Weil was her brother.