 | New Thought - 1952 - 1054 pages
...lamp Close to my breast; its splendour, soon or late, Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge one day. TO BE ROOTED IS PERHAPS the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. It is one oi the hardest to define. A human being has roots by virtue oi his real, active and natural... | |
 | Russell Ferguson, Martha Gever, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Cornel West - Design - 1992 - 454 pages
...Weil posed the dilemma of exile as concisely as it has ever been expressed. "To be rooted," she said, "is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul." Yet Weil also saw that most remedies for uprootedness in this era of world wars, deportations and mass... | |
 | Gordon Collier - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 436 pages
...positive words ‘Living and Writing in the Caribbean: THE REALITY'. CARYL PHILLIPS The European Tribe To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. Simone Weil T HE ENGLAND THAT I RETURNED TO after nearly a year's travelling was caught in the tight grip of a... | |
 | Herbert Anderson, Kenneth R. Mitchell - Family & Relationships - 1993 - 164 pages
...Dante's hell. Simone Weil's comments from The Need for Roots have haunted me during the past few months. "To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul." Saying good-byes and closing boxes pulled up my anchoring roots one by one. I understand very well... | |
 | Rosemary Marangoly George - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 282 pages
...project among the many possible discussions on postcoloniality. Epilogue. All homesickness is fiction To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. Simone Weil we pretend that we are trees and speak of roots. Look under your feet. You will not find gnarled growths... | |
 | Carol Becker - Social Science - 1996 - 296 pages
...Wood (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), 889—892. PART III WRITING ON ART CHAPTER 8 ¿ Imaginative Geography To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. —Simone Weill It is part of morality not to be at home in one's home. —Theodor Adorn& There are times when... | |
 | William Vitek, Wes Jackson - Science - 1996 - 308 pages
...(Quinby 1991, 147—148). Others, though, prominently SimoneWeil, have argued strongly for attachment: “To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. . . . A human being has roots by virtue of his real, active, and natural participation in the life... | |
 | Yvonne Marie Vissing - Social Science - 1995 - 292 pages
...claimed as his. Belongingness. Belonging is of utmost importance in the construction of healthy children. “To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. It is the one need that is the hardest to define” (Weil 1952,41). Children who move frequently do... | |
 | Howard J. Ehrlich - Political Science - 1996 - 406 pages
...comfort, order, esteem, above all rootedness. (“To be rooted,” as Simone Weil has shrewdly noted, “is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”) Those provided by the state — taxation, standing armies, police, regulations, bureaucracies, courts,... | |
 | Akhil Gupta, James Ferguson - Social Science - 1997 - 380 pages
...PeopLes and the TerritorlaUzatlon of NationaL IdentIty among Scholars and Refugees LIISA H. MALKKI “To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul,” wrote Simone Weil (1987:41) in wartime England in 1942. In our day, new conjunctures of theoretical... | |
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. Simone Weil, The Need for Roots 
