The Life Of God - The Life

For Us, Mind Has Nature For Its Premise, Being Nature's Truth And For That Reason Its Absolute Prius. In This Truth Nature Has Vanished, And Mind Has Resulted As The Idea Arrived At Being-for-itself, The Object Of Which, As Well As The Subject, Is The Concept. This Identity Is Absolute Negativity, For Whereas In Nature The Concept Has Its Perfect External Objectivity, This Its Alienation Has Been Superseded, And In This Alienation The Concept Has Become Identical With Itself. But It Is This Identity Therefore, Only In Being A Return Out Of Nature.

The Heart-throb For The Welfare Of Humanity Therefore Passes Into The Ravings Of An Insane Self-conceit, Into The Fury Of Consciousness To Preserve Itself From Destruction; And It Does This By Expelling From Itself The Perversion Which It Is Itself, And By Striving To Look On It And Express It As Something Else.

The Valor That Struggles Is Better Than The Weakness That Endures.

The Evident Character Of This Defective Cognition Of Which Mathematics Is Proud, And On Which It Plumes Itself Before Philosophy, Rests Solely On The Poverty Of Its Purpose And The Defectiveness Of Its Stuff, And Is Therefore Of A Kind That Philosophy Must Spurn

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.