To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Die Person muß sich eine äußere Sphäre ihrer Freiheit geben, um als Idee zu sein.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

When, therefore, a man is told, “You (your inner being) are so and so, because your skull-bone is so constituted,” this means nothing else than that we regard a bone as the man's reality. To retort upon such a statement with a box on the ear — in the way mentioned above when dealing with psysiognomy — removes primarily the “soft” parts of his head from their apparent dignity and position, and proves merely that these are no true inherent nature, are not the reality of mind; the retort here would, properly speaking, have to go the length of breaking the skull of the person who makes a statement like that, in order to demonstrate to him in a manner as palpable as his own wisdom that a bone is nothing of an inherent nature at all for a man, still less his true reality.