For Malebranche, infinity is its very form: The idea of the extended infinite thus encloses more reality than that of the heavens; and the idea of the infinite in all genres of Being, that which corresponds to this word, Being, the infinitely perfect being, contains infinitely more reality), although the perception with which this idea affects us is the slightest of all; and is slighter to the extent that it is more vast, and consequently infinitely slight because infinite (Entretien d'un philosophe chretien avec on philosophe chinois.)