Simone Weil (1909-1943)

Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic and political activist. Despite her short life, her ideas concerning religion, spirituality and politics have remained widely influential in contemporary philosophy.

Quotes

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Evil
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.
I can, therefore I am.