work

Man's greatness is always to recreate his life, to recreate what is given to him, to fashion that very thing which he undergoes. Through work he produces his own natural existence. Through science he recreates the universe by means of symbols. Through art he recreates the alliance between his body and his soul (cf. the speech of Eupalinos). It is to be noticed that each of these three things is something poor, empty and vain taken by tiself and not in relation to the two others. Union of the three: a working people's culture (that will not be just yet)...

The master is the slave of the slave in the sense that the slave makes the master master.

monotony is either a reflection of eternity or the sign of unvarying perpetuity. Time is either surpassed or sterilized.

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

I was a little disappointed that out of all places to end, Weil's notes ended on enstranged labor. It certainly makes sense after her extensive notes on reification, human condition and social politics, but regardless, the necessity of God is merely a blurp in comparison to the rest of her notes. I'm still skeptical as to how 'heretical' her system of belief was. Her notes seem more edited than they do gnostic.