For the subject matter is not exhausted by any aim, but only by the way in which things are worked out in detail; nor is the result the actual whole, but only the result together with its becoming. The aim, taken by itself, is a lifeless generality; the tendency is a mere drift which still lacks actuality; and the naked result is the corpse which has left the tendency behind.

The very attempt to determine the relationship of a philosophical work to other efforts concerning the same subject, introduces an alien and irrelevant interes…

But the other side of its Becoming, History, is a conscious, self-meditating process - Spirit emptied out into Time; but this externalization, this kenosis, is…

The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.