Science of Logic Quotes

There is nothing which is not an intermediate state between being and nothing.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite, never reach actuality, but lie idle in abstractions, till their light gradually dies away.

Just as little is seen in pure light as in pure darkness.

Freedom is the truth of necessity.[Die Freiheit die Wahrheit der Nothwendigkeit ist.]

To understand how to put questions presupposes a certain education.

There is nothing, nothing in heaven, or in nature or in mind or anywhere else which does not equally contain both immediacy and mediation.

The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.[Daß darin selbst, daß etwas als Schranke bestimmt ist, darüber bereits hinausgegangen ist.]

The richer in determinateness and, therefore, in relationships thoughts become, the more confused and also the more arbitrary and meaningless becomes their representation in such forms as numbers.[Je reicher an Bestimmtheit und damit an Beziehung die Gedanken werden, desto verworrener einer Seits und desto willkürlicher und sinnleerer anderer Seits wird ihre Darstellung in solchen Formen, als die Zahlen sind.]

Reason is negative and dialectical, because it resolves the determinations of the understanding into nothing.

Pure Being and pure nothing are, therefore, the same.

It has become a common jest in history to let great effects arise from small causes.