“Perhaps what Aristotle and Seneca were saying boils down to the same infinite regress, a pair of facing mirrors in which my own image recedes into the distance, until I dissolve in the darkness: I do what I’m told because I’m a slave, and I’m a slave because I do what I’m told.”

“Perhaps what Aristotle and Seneca were saying boils down to the same infinite regress, a pair of facing mirrors in which my own image recedes into the distance, until I dissolve in the darkness: I do what I’m told because I’m a slave, and I’m a slave because I do what I’m told.”

— James Hynes