Too Fair To Worship, Too Divine To

The Real Is The Rational And The Rational Is The Real.

An Idea Is Always A Generalization, And Generalization Is A Property Of Thinking. To Generalize Means To Think.

The Life Of God - The Life Which The Mind Apprehends And Enjoys As It Rises To The Absolute Unity Of All Things - May Be Described As A Play Of Love With Itself; But This Idea Sinks To An Edifying Truism, Or Even To A Platitude, When It Does Not Embrace In It The Earnestness, The Pain, The Patience, And Labor, Involved In The Negative Aspect Of Things.

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.

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.