Not Curiosity, Not Vanity, Not The Consideration

When Philosophy With Its Abstractions Paints Grey In Grey, The Freshness And Life Of Youth Has Gone, The Reconciliation Is Not A Reconciliation In The Actual, But In The Ideal World.

The Sublime In Art Is The Attempt To Express The Infinite Without Finding In The Realm Of Phenomena Any Object Which Proves Itself Fitting For This Representation.

If We Go On To Cast A Look At The Fate Of These World-historical Persons, Whose Vocation It Was To Be The Agents Of The World-spirit, We Shall Find It To Have Been No Happy One. They Attained No Calm Enjoyment; Their Whole Life Was Labour And Trouble; Their Whole Nature Was Nought Else But Their Master—passion. When Their Object Is Attained They Fall Off Like Empty Hulls From The Kernel. They Die Early, Like Alexander; They Are Murdered, Like Caesar.

When Needs And Means Become Abstract In Quality, Abstraction Is Also A Character Of The Reciprocal Relation Of Individuals To Oneanother. This Abstract Character, Universality, Is The Character Of Being Recognized And Is The Moment Which Makes Concrete, I.e. Social, The Isolated And Abstract Needs And Their Ways And Means Of Satisfaction.

What Is Rational Is Actual And What Is Actual Is Rational