The State Is The Divine Idea As

Too Fair To Worship, Too Divine To Love.

It Is Easier To Discover A Deficiency In Individuals, In States, And In Providence, Than To See Their Real Import And Value.

Each Of The Parts Of Philosophy Is A Philosophical Whole, A Circle Rounded And Complete In Itself. In Each Of These Parts, However, The Philosophical Idea Is Found In A Particular Specificality Or Medium. The Single Circle, Because It Is A Real Totality, Bursts Through The Limits Imposed By Its Special Medium, And Gives Rise To A Wider Circle. The Whole Of Philosophy In This Way Resembles A Circle Of Circles. The Idea Appears In Each Single Circle, But, At The Same Time, The Whole Idea Is Constituted By The System Of These Peculiar Phases, And Each Is A Necessary Member Of The Organisation.

Not Curiosity, Not Vanity, Not The Consideration Of Expediency, Not Duty And Conscientiousness, But An Unquenchable, Unhappy Thirst That Brooks No Compromise Leads Us To Truth.

Quite Generally, The Familiar, Just Because It Is Familiar, Is Not Cognitively Understood. The Commonest Way In Which We Deceive Either Ourselves Or Others About Understanding Is By Assuming Something As Familiar, And Accepting It On That Account; With All Its Pros And Cons, Such Knowing Never Gets Anywhere, And It Knows Not Why.... The Analysis Of An Idea, As It Used To Be Carried Out, Was, In Fact, Nothing Else Than Ridding It Of The Form In Which It Had Become Familiar.