(mainly in Catholic France)
the spongy spiritualism of Simone Weil
includes:
"The beauty of this world is Christ's tender smile coming to us through matter."
"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."
"There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction."
"Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity."
and reams of similar tosh, possibly as bad as my own,
which almost makes me Groucho-glad that I'm not revered.
HOWEVER, she did write some excellent epigrams, such as:
– Christians do it religiously.
* * *
A less sententious philosopher >
She was one of the most odious types of poster-hero :
a preacher, a career-martyr and a
dishonest suicide who was not even a cat-lover
- let alone a resister (even by stealth)
against the Catholic patriarchy of Pius XII.
I get the impression that she would rather have died in Auschwitz, had she known of its existence.
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