Come Out Swinging
[Simone] Weil’s critique of Marx is impressive in its sweep, its remorseless logic, and its passion, recalling the contemporary writing of Berdiaev. –David McLellan/ Utopian Pessimist: The Life and Thought of Simone Weil, 77
Tag: Simone Weil
Today’s One-Liner (#289)
While I thought that there was some element of madness in her projects, I recall that after having seen her I was even more convinced than before that she was some sort of saint. –Simone…
Turning
It is at those moments when we are, as we say, in a bad mood, when we feel incapable of the elevation of soul that befits holy things, it is then that it is most…
Today’s One-Liner (#229)
I recited the Our Father in Greek every day before work and I repeated it very often in the vineyard. –Simone Weil, Waiting for God
Today’s One-Liner (#228)
The love of our neighbor in all its fulness simply means being able to say to him: “What are you going through?” –Simone Weil, Waiting for God
This Leads to That
Often, at the culminating point of a violent headache, I make myself say [George Herbert’s Love] over, concentrating all my attention upon it and clinging with all my soul to the tenderness it enshrines. I…
More of Simone’s Loves
I love the saints through their writings and what is told of their lives … I love the six or seven Catholics of genuine spirituality whom chance has led me to meet in the course…
Today’s One-Liner (#212)
I fell in love with Saint Francis of Assisi as soon as I came to know about him. –Simone Weil, Waiting for God
Writing Daily
Often quoting Stendhal to the effect that one should “write every day, whether inspired or not,” Alain encouraged his students to sit down at a desk and write prolifically, as he did, at least two…
More Recent Reading
Dear L., Here is a list of some books I’ve read in the past few years. Given my pretty rigid leftist mindset, Simone Weil’s maxim was often on my mind in reading the following……