History teaches us that man learns nothing from history. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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...

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.

Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts, however, the philosophical Idea is found in a particular specificality or medium. The single circle, because it is a real totality, bursts through the limits imposed by its special medium, and gives rise to a wider circle. The whole of philosophy in this way resembles a circle of circles. The Idea appears in each single circle, but, at the same time, the whole Idea is constituted by the system of these peculiar phases, and each is a necessary member of the organisation.