Tuesday, January 18, 2011

False Infinity

Monotony of evil: anything new, everything about it is equivalent. Never anything real, everything about it is imaginary.

It is because of this monotony that quantity plays so great a part. A host of women (Don Juan) or of men (Célimène), etc. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, Routledge (New York: 2007) p. 69.