In her article "Personality and the Sacred," written shortly before her death, Simone Weil, with the uncompromising consistency characteristic of her ethical thought, searches for values ​​in man that are truly sacred to society and the state, and comes to the paradoxical conclusion that this is not the personality, but the impersonal; not natural law, but a childish expectation of good; not gifts and abilities, but a humble hope for truth and beauty; not self-realization, but a tongue-less cry of misfortune; not the desire for freedom, but a thirst for supernatural good.