Full Idea
The body classifies things in the world before there is any thought. (Example: the chick leaving the egg distinguished what is to be pecked and what not).
Gist of Idea
Bodies classify things prior to thought (such as chicks knowing what hits of the egg to peck)
Source
Simone Weil (Lect 1: Materialist Viewpoint [1933], p.31)
A Reaction
Good. It is an absurd mistake to think that classification could be exclusively human, or (even worse) exclusively verbal. How do animals cope with the world?
Book Reference
Weil,Simone: 'Lectures on Philosophy' [CUP 1978], p.31