Our lives are lived, in actual fact, among changing, varying realities, subject to the casual play of external necessities, and modifying themselves according to specific conditions within specific limits; and yet we act and strive and sacrifice ourselves and others by reference to fixed and isolated abstractions which cannot possibly be related either to one another or to any concrete facts.


The Power of Words (1937)

Simone Weil Quotes

Our lives are lived, in actual fact, among changing, varying realities, subject to the casual play of external necessities, and modifying themselves...

Our lives are lived, in actual fact, among changing, varying realities, subject to the casual play of external necessities, and modifying themselves...

Our lives are lived, in actual fact, among changing, varying realities, subject to the casual play of external necessities, and modifying themselves...

Our lives are lived, in actual fact, among changing, varying realities, subject to the casual play of external necessities, and modifying themselves...