Philosophy Is The History Of Philosophy.

In The Case Of Various Kinds Of Knowledge, We Find That What In Former Days Occupied The Energies Of Men Of Mature Mental Ability Sinks To The Level Of Information, Exercises, And Even Pastimes For Children; And In This Educational Progress We Can See The History Of The World's Culture Delineated In Faint Outline.

Serious Occupation Is Labor That Has Reference To Some Want.

Every Philosophy Is Complete In Itself And, Like A Genuine Work Of Art, Contains The Totality. Just As The Works Of Apelles And Sophocles, If Raphael And Shakespeare Had Known Them, Should Not Have Appeared To Them As Mere Preliminary Exercises For Their Own Work, But Rather As A Kindred Force Of The Spirit, So, Too Reason Cannot Find In Its Own Earlier Forms Mere Useful Preliminary Exercises For Itself.

A Man Who Has Work That Suits Him And A Wife, Whom He Loves, Has Squared His Accounts With Life.

In The Soul Is The Awaking Of Consciousness: Consciousness Sets Itself Up As Reason, Awaking At One Bound To The Sense Of Its Rationality: And This Reason By Its Activity Emancipates Itself To Objectivity And The Consciousness Of Its Intelligent Unity.