this is love. I have my self-consciousness not in myself but in the other. I am satisfied and have peace with myself only in this other and I AM only… - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Die Architektur ist dann die Kristallisation, die Skulptur die organische Figuration der Materie in ihrer sinnlich-räumlichen Totalität; die Malerei die gefärbte Fläche und Linie; während in der Musik der Raum überhaupt zu dem in sich erfüllten Punkt der Zeit übergeht; bis das äußere Material endlich in der Poesie ganz zur Wertlosigkeit herabgesetzt ist.

Philosophy is, by its very nature, something esoteric, neither made for the vulgar as it stands [für sich], nor capable of being got up to suit the vulgar taste; it only is philosophy in virtue of being directly opposed to the understanding and hence even more opposed to healthy common sense, under which label we understand the limitedness in space and time of a race of men; in its relationship to common sense the world of philosophy is in and for itself an inverted world .21 When Alexander, having heard that his teacher was publishing written essays on his philosophy, wrote to him from the heart of Asia that he ought not to have vulgarized the philosophizing they had done together, Aristotle defended himself by saying that his philosophy was published and yet also not published. In the same way philosophy [now] must certainly admit [erkennen] the possibility that the people can rise to it, but it must not lower itself to the people. But in these times of freedom and equality, in which such a large educated public has been formed, that will not allow anything to be shut away from it, but considers itself good for anything – or everything good enough for it – in these times even the highest beauty and the greatest good have not been able to escape the fate of being mishandled by the common mob which cannot rise to what it sees floating above it, until it has been made common enough to be fit for their possessing; so that vulgarization has forced its way into being recognized as a meritorious kind of labour. There is no aspect of the higher striving of the human spirit that has not experienced this fate. An Idea, in art or in philosophy, needs only to be glimpsed in order for the processing to start by which it is properly stirred up into material for the pulpit, for text books, and for the household use of the newspaper public.

Vjecni zivot Bozji mora sebe naci, postati sebe svjestan, uskladiti se sa sobom. U tom uspinjanju dolazi do otudjenja, razjedinjavanja, ali u prirodi je duha, ideje, da sebe otudjuje kako bi se ponovno nasla. To kretanje je upravo ono sto sloboda jest; jer, gledajuci stvar izvana, kazemo da je slobodan onaj covjek koji ne ovisi o nekome drugom, koji nije potlacen, nije vezan uz nekoga. Vracajuci se samome sebi, duh postize slobodu - to opce kretanje je niz oblikovanja duha. Taj niz ne treba sagledavati pravocrtno, nego kao krug koji se vraca u sebe...