The Nature Of Finite Things Is To

History As The Slaughter-bench

The Substance, The Essence, The Spirit Is Freedom.

The Soul Is Presupposed As A Ready-made Agent, Which Displays Such Features As Its Acts And Utterances, From Which We Can Learn What It Is, What Sort Of Faculties And Powers It Possesses -- All Without Being Aware That The Act And Utterance Of What The Soul Is Really Invests It With That Character In Our Conception And Makes It Reach A Higher Stage Of Being Than It Explicitly Had Before.

We Must Have A New Mythology, But It Must Place Itself At The Service Of Ideas, It Must Become A Mythology Of Reason. Mythology Must Become Philosophical, So That The People May Become Rational, And Philosophy Must Become Mythological, So That Philosophers May Become Sensible. If We Do Not Give Ideas A Form That Is Aesthetic, I.e., Mythological, They Will Hold No Interest For People.

...if The Fear Of Falling Into Error Is The Source Of A Mistrust In Science, Which In The Absence Of Any Such Misgivings Gets On With The Work Itself And Actually Does Know, It Is Difficult To See Why, Conversely, A Mistrust Should Not Be Placed In This Mistrust, And Why We Should Not Be Concerned That This Fear Of Erring Is Itself The Very Error.