Simone Weil Quotes
I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.
Citations
Weil, Simone. Seventy Letters, translated by Richard Rees, Oxford University Press, 1965, p. 135.
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Salisbury had always been opposed to colonial adventurism and was opposed to the jingo segment of English society associated with his Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain. Nonetheless, Britain became more embroiled in Africa. Salisbury’s explanation was in French: “L’appetit vient en mangeant.”
Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. The mathematician André Weil was her brother.