Status Updates From Simone Weil: Late Philosoph...

“If a child does addition, and if she fails, the error bears the mark of her personality. If she proceeds in a perfectly correct manner, her person is absent from the whole operation.”

“When circumstances came about wherein a certain number of slaves were liberated, masters could not get [unliberated] slaves to obey them (the revolt in Sicily follows from an occurrence of this sort). Thus as long as liberty does not feel like a possibility, slaves cannot disobey. Whenever they sensed that it was possible, they could no longer obey.”

“The Greens were obsessed by the idea of justice. They died from having abandoned it.”

"God in Plato" ate....