“The only serious aim of schoolwork is to train the attention. Attention is the only faculty of the soul which gives access to God. Mental gymnastics rely on an inferior, discursive form of attention, which reasons. Properly directed, however, this attention may give rise in the soul to another, of the highest kind, which is intuitive attention.”
– Simone Weil, La Condition ouvrière
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[Revised entry by Juan Comesaña and Peter Klein on January 11, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Philosophical skepticism...
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