Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I .

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.

A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation.

The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.