Finitude (cont.)

5. Consciousness represents a glimpse, a suggestion of the infinite, a gesture toward it. It allows us to observe our finitude and therefore creates a kind of illusion of having escaped it. Indeed, insofar as it represents a moment of transcendence, looking back over the way it has come and specifying and describing the boundary it has just crossed, it has a kind of analogical relationship with the infinite. It shares the delight of the infinite and thereby expresses a kind of worship. Thinking, learning, understanding, imagining are all forms of this worship, for all are directed toward this thing that we are not—the infinite.