Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer,” the philosopher and mystic Simone Weil wrote.

Walter Russell Mead takes note of the meeting of the minds between populists and techno elites, both of whom dislike government bureaucrats (“American Exceptionalism Is Back,” Global View, Jan. 21).

Simone Weil once told a student, “What I cannot stand is compromise.” This unyielding stance underpinned the French philosopher’s life and work, which offered profound insights into a pressing issue ...

The 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil once said that compassion was an impossibility. She said it is “a more astounding miracle than walking on water.” The word she used for meeting the ...

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