Stars and blossoming fruit trees: Utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity. - Simone Weil

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Stars and blossoming fruit trees: Utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

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About Simone Weil

Simone Adolphine Weil (3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French social and religious philosopher, and Christian mystic. Politically active, during the Spanish Civil War she joined the Anarchist military unit known as the Durruti Column, and took part in the French Resistance during World War II. She was the sister of mathematician André Weil, with whom she shared an interest in ancient Greek and Indian thought.

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Alternative Names: Simone Adolphine Weil
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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

We must leave on one side the beliefs which fill up voids and sweeten what is bitter. The belief in immortality. The belief in the utility of sin: etiam peccata. The belief in the providential ordering of events — in short the "consolations" which are ordinarily sought in religion.

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