Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Sunday, 24 March 2013

Simone Weil *

wrote: 

When truth appears at least as true as falsehood it is a triumph of sanctity or of genius.
Thus Saint Francis preached employing cheap histrionics to make his audience weep.


But, being Christian, St Francis preached falsehood.

* La pesanteur et la grâce (1947).

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