Creo que son los males del alma, el alma. Porque el alma que se cura de sus males, muere.
Voces (1943)
Creo que son los males del alma, el alma. Porque el alma que se cura de sus males, muere.
Voces (1943)
“Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.”
“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.”
As quoted in Daughters of the Promised Land, Women in American History (1970) by Page Smith, p. 273
Une âme ... n'est pas faite pour habiter une chose ; quand elle y est contrainte, il n’est plus rien en elle qui ne souffre violence.
in The Simone Weil Reader, p. 155
Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941)
1920s, The Doctrine Of The Sword (1920)
Context: Nonviolence in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering. It does not means meek submission to the will of the evil-doer, but it means the putting of one's whole soul against the will of the tyrant. Working under this law of being, it is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.
And so I am not pleading for India to practice nonviolence because it is weak. I want her to practice nonviolence being conscious of her strength and power. No training in arms is required for realization of her strength. We seem to need it because we seem to think that we are but a lump of flesh. I want India to recognize that she has a soul that cannot perish and that can rise triumphant above every physical weakness and defy the physical combination of a whole world.
“There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by.”
Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 18.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CXV: On the Superficial Blessings
“Every music has its own soul, Quincy.”
Source: Said to Quincy Jones as quoted in The Arranger, an article in Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-arranger-20940901/
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 446.
