Full Idea
The good seems to us a nothingness, since there is no thing that is good. But this nothingness is not unreal.
Gist of Idea
The good is a nothingness, and yet real
Source
Simone Weil (Gravity and Grace [1942], 'Detachment')
Book Reference
Weil,Simone: 'Gravity and Grace', ed/tr. Crawford/De Ruhr [Routledge 1952], p.13
A Reaction
A neat move in the notoriously difficult platonic problem of specifying the actual nature of the good.