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Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings (2015)
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Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings
by Simone Weil
⇥ All of us know that sensation is immediate, a brute fact, and that it seizes us by surprise. Without warning a man is punched in the stomach; everything changes for him before he even knows what happened. I touch something hot and I jerk my hand back before I even know that I burned myself. Something seizes me here - it is the universe, and I recognize it by the way it treats me. No one is surprised by the power that punches, burns, or sudden noises have to grab hold of us, for we know, or at least believe, that they come from outside us, from matter, and that the mind does not play any part in the sensation, except to submit to it. The thoughts that we ourselves form may bring on certain emotions, but we are not seized by them in the same way.🏁
Submitted by semi - 06/02/2026
Book Philosophy 5.31 Ranked
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Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings
by Simone Weil
⇥ All of us know that sensation is immediate, a brute fact, and that it seizes us by surprise. Without warning a man is punched in the stomach; everything changes for him before he even knows what happened. I touch something hot and I jerk my hand back before I even know that I burned myself. Something seizes me here - it is the universe, and I recognize it by the way it treats me. No one is surprised by the power that punches, burns, or sudden noises have to grab hold of us, for we know, or at least believe, that they come from outside us, from matter, and that the mind does not play any part in the sensation, except to submit to it. The thoughts that we ourselves form may bring on certain emotions, but we are not seized by them in the same way.🏁
Submitted by semi - 06/02/2026
Book Philosophy 5.31 Ranked