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The
Science of Knowing.
"
. . . [L]ife
is just as truth is: the self-grounded, held and sustained by
itself. Truth is, therefore, in and through itself
only life's image, and likewise
only an
image of life gives truth . . ."1a
"
. . .
[Y]ou could not describe pure
certainty otherwise than as pure unchangeability; and
[you could not describe] unchangeability otherwise than as the
persisting oneness of the "what" or of
quality."1b
". . .
[W]e view ourselves in the very
same way we have described certainty, as
persisting unchangeably in the construction's
single same "what"; we are what we say,
and
we say what we are. .
."1c
"Simple
existence . . . does not have its ground in itself, but
instead in an absolute purpose. And this purpose is
that absolute knowing should be. Everything is
posited and determined through this purpose; and it achieves and
exhibits its true destination only in the attainment of this
purpose. Value exists only in knowing,
indeed in absolute knowing; all else is without value."1d
"Seeing posited
as seeing means that it is thought . . .
"Thus, we genetically derive being
there {Dasein}, the true inner essence of existence
{Existenz}.
" . . . [T]he
absolute insight of reason brings absolute existence {Dasein}
(of seeing, in fact) with itself. It does so immediately [in the
course of] performing the action, and so the expression of doing
so."1e*
"We indeed
are reason, because reason is simply the I, and cannot
be anything else than I."1f
"'Reason
itself is immediately and unconditionally the ground of an
existence, indeed of its own existence,
since it cannot be of any other.'"1g*
"Absolute reason
is absolute (accomplished) thinking {Intelligieren}
of oneself. Thinking oneself {Selbstintelligieren}
as such, is reason."1h*
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