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" We here, once more, have the tedious talk about the wise man, which by the Stoics, as also by the Epicureans, was even more spun out and made more tedious..."

I feel you Hegel, ethics is just the lamest branch of philosophy.

...if word and thing are in opposition, the word is the higher, for the unexpressed thing is really irrational, since the rational exists as speech alone.

We no longer hear question and answer as to what Nature is, but as to what Truth is; or real essence has determined itself not to be the implicit, but to be what it is in knowledge.

To read before moving on: Xenophanes' Socratic writings, Aristophanes Clouds.

...with all men, however different their characters, he [Socrates] entered on one kind of dialogue, with all that Attic urbanity which, without presumption on his part, without instructing others, or wishing to command them, while maintaining their perfect right to freedom, and honoring it, yet causes all that is rude to be suppressed.

The animal has no religion, because it only feels; but what is spiritual rests on the mediation of thought, and pertains to man.

Tiedemann could say of every philosopher that he went further than healthy human understanding, for what men call healthy understanding is not Philosophy, and is often far from healthy.

Sophism: a denunciation of 'healthy' human understanding.

That man is powerful who can deduce the actions of men from the absolute ends which move them.