Thursday, April 10, 2008

fantasy or reality.. which are you living in?

i found this quote to be penetrating in its insight...
let me know what you think.
it seems as though we tend to turn things upside down in our thinking.
truth centers us in reality

Simone Weil, the French Jewish intellectual, said,

"Nothing is so beautiful, nothing is so continually fresh and surprising, so full of sweet and perpetual ecstasy as the good.
No deserts are so dreary, monotonous and boring as evil.
But with fantasy it is the other way round.
Fictional good is boring and flat, while fictional evil is varied, intriguing, attractive and full of charm."

Quoted in Geoffrey Barlow, Vintage Muggeridge: Religion and Society, pages 91-92.

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