“Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God”
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Simone Weil
Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, political activist and labourer. Despite her short life, her ideas concerning religion, spirituality and politics have remained widely influential in contemporary philosophy.
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culture · French philosopher (1909–1943) · philosopher · secondary school teacher · writer · autobiographer · poet · trade unionist · French resistance fighter · diarist · translator · also Simone Weil, Simone Adolphine Weil, Weil
Born 3 February 1909 · Died 24 August 1943 · Q157309
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2026· 15 entries
“s colonial policies including the mission civilisatrice stating”
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“non-violence is good only if it”
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“the conviction was suddenly borne in upon her that Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of slaves, that slaves cannot help belonging to it, and she among others.”
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Law.com: Weil Sees PE Co-Head Decamp for Paul Weiss
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Weil: Weil Secures Complete Seventh Circuit Victory for Elanco in Securities Class Action
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The Catholic Weekly: Pay attention! – the challenging message of Simone Weil
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Legal Business: Weil and Jones Day say cheese on £1bn acquisition of dairy brands
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Law360: Paul Hastings Hires IP And Technology Pro From Weil
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Sofascore: TSV Kuppingen vs SpVgg Weil im Schönbuch live score, H2H and lineups
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inc.com: Kevin Weil Left OpenAI 4 Months Ago. Now He's Seeking $150 Million for a Startup With No Public Product
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Okdiario: Simone Weil: in the heart of every human being, despite the crimes suffered, there is the expectation that good will be done
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Mshale: Café Segafredo Dreiländergalerie In Weil Am Rhein School (sYKMJAzp45)
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Business Insider: Former OpenAI executive Kevin Weil has sought a valuation of at least $750 million for his new AI science startup
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Moneycontrol.com: Grauer and Weil Consolidated June 2026 Net Sales at Rs 298.68 crore, up 17.93% Y-o-Y
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2017· 1 entry
President Emmanuel Macron mentioned Weil and her philosophy in a joint address to Parliament stating the need for what Weil calls l'effectivité (effectivity)
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1951· 1 entry
Albert Camus wrote that she was "the only great spirit of our times"
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1950· 2 entries
Awarded Ambassadors' Prize for Waiting for God (1950).
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Posthumously, edited by Father Joseph-Marie Perrin and Gustave Thibon and the English translation was published shortly after, in 1951
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1943· 7 entries
Died 1943-08-24.
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Weil was diagnosed with tuberculosis and instructed to rest and eat well
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“Enquanto eu estava sozinha na pequena capela românica de Santa Maria dos Anjos, incomparável milagre de pureza, na qual Francisco orou com tanta frequência, algo mais forte do que eu me obrigou, pela primeira vez na minha vida, a ajoelhar-me" (Autobiografia espiritual).”
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Weil was hired to work there under Phillip and Francis Louis Coston
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“Love is not consolation, it is light.”
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“There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.”
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While working for the Free French government in exile in Britain
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1942· 1 entry
Weil travelled to the United States with her family
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1940· 1 entry
In Les Cahiers du Sud, the only significant literary magazine available in the French free zone
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1939· 1 entry
“Iliade ou le poème de la force), a 24-page essay, in 1939 in Marseilles. First published in 1940 in Les Cahiers du Sud, the only significant literary magazine available in the French free zone. It is still commonly used in university courses on the Classics. The essay focuses on the theme that Weil calls”
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1938· 1 entry
Weil visited the Benedictine Solesmes Abbey and, though suffering from headaches, she found such pure joy in Gregorian chant that she felt the "possibility of living divine love in the midst of affliction"
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1937· 1 entry
Had a profound spiritual experience that marked a turning point in her religious life
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1935· 2 entries
When she had the first of three pivotal religious experiences: being moved by the beauty of villagers singing hymns in a procession she stumbled across while on holiday to Portugal (in Póvoa de Varzim)
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Began teaching in Bourges and started Entre Nous, a journal that was produced and written by factory workers
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1933· 1 entry
Weil was dismissed from a teaching job in Auxerre and transferred to Roanne
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1932· 1 entry
Weil visited Germany to help Marxist activists, who were at the time considered to be the strongest and best organised communists in Western Europe, but Weil considered them no match for the up-and-coming fascists
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1931· 1 entry
Weil earned her DES (diplôme d'études supérieures, roughly equivalent to an M
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1919· 1 entry
At 10 years of age, she declared herself a Bolshevik
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1915· 1 entry
When she was only six years old, she refused sugar and chocolate in solidarity with the troops entrenched along the Western Front
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1909· 1 entry
Born 1909-02-03.
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