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Friday, July 11, 2008

The Ego And His Own - pg. 74

For no cultured man is so cultured as not to find enjoyment
in things too, and so be uncultured; and no uncultured man
is totally without thoughts. In Hegel it comes to light at last
what a longing for things even the most cultured man has,
and what a horror of every "hollow theory" he harbors. With
him reality, the world of things, is altogether to correspond
to the thought, and no concept is to be without reality. This
caused Hegel's system to be known as the most objective, as
if in it thought and thing celebrated their union. But this was
simply the extremest case of violence on the part of though,
its highest pitch of despotism and sole dominion, the triumph
of mind, and with it the triumph of philosophy. Philosophy
cannot hereafter achieve anything higher, for its highest is the
omnipotence of mind, the almightiness of mind.

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