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Knowledge shuts out everything that is not grasped theoretically by mind, and it takes a considerable amount of time and discipline.

Recalls things to memory or through knowledge sight or touch, or all the other senses feeds on and soars upward.
Ideas are tossed about in some region halfway between truth and not truth, those who see truth may be said to know.

The sophist as I conceive is incapable of seeing or loving absolute beauty.

Can we ever administer any soothing cordial or advice to sophist without revealing to them that there is a sad disorder in their wits?


Can I ever assure them that they are welcome to any opinion, which they have, and that philosophers rejoice at their having ? But one question do they have knowledge or not?



Make a division if there be such knowledge corresponded between ignorance and knowledge? They are faculties in a class by themselves: they are powers in us all a by which we do as we do. for example, sight and hearing, we should call faculties can clearly explains the class I mean. In a faculty, we think of a sphere and that which has another sphere we and call different. Knowledge is a faculty, and the mightiest of all faculties. And is opinion a faculty for opinion is that of mere rhetoric. The same as just and unjust, good and evil, and of every other class, the same remark holds: taken singly, each of them one; but from the various combinations of them with actions and things and with one another, they are seen in all sorts of lights and appear many?
And thus is the distinction, which I draw between the sight-loving, art-loving, practical sophists and those of whom I am speaking, and who are alone worthy of the name of philosophers.


Sophists who, having a sense of beautiful things has no sense of absolute beauty, or who, if another lead him to a knowledge of that beauty is unable to follow are fond of opining that are made out of them, but their mind is incapable of seeing or loving philosophy.

To grasp the whole truth you will have no problem in knowing what is great and what is small arises when there is some contradiction involves the conception of plurality, in which thought begins to be aroused within, the mind is perplexed wants to arrive at truth.

The mind rightly educated is the philosopher who is noble and good, and reason they will recognize and salute.
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The philosopher’s mind is fine as a point, free .self-movement like the motion of the sun moves round and round in the same place, only from one place to another. To a great extent neither rest or motion, must it not too the mind rest upon a center moves round and round in the same place, or only from one place to another.

They know the existence of absolute beauty and are able to distinguish the idea from reality, neither putting the reality in place of the idea nor the idea in the place of actuality.

My aim is to try and show thoughts are not new nor old, non of one age only but of all. I will not rest in the multiplicity of only appearance, but I will go not blunted, nor subdued. The love of philosophy lodges in my heart it is my dearest friend I cannot refuse anything even with arguments, embarrassment and logic.


Philosophy I love but I cannot explain the reason why, it appears I am caught up in some sort of instinctual blind beholding where I cease from pain, and when I am away, I long for philosophy a friendship again. From my earliest youth I desired. even in youth I observed those who were just and gentle, or rude and unsociable. The pleasure to learn for no one will love that which gives pain, or after much hard work see little progress.

Know thysel know what is truth. Look in your self find the homeland of truth. In ancient times virtue had certainty determinate significance solid base was good. But the problem with truth is it vanishes in the course of the moment merely a conception a mere sense-certainty, or perception. There is nothing that can assure that what we see is real excepting clear and distinct knowledge.

I aim to show my thoughts iare not new nor old, not of one age only but of all. The love of philosophy lodges in my heart it is my dearest friend I cannot refuse it anything, even with arguments, or embarrassment and or logic.

Love of philosophy I cannot explain the reason why, but I only know I am caught up in some sort of inhertient behold where I cease from pain, and when I am away from philosophy I long for friendship again. From my earliest youth I desired it observing those who were just and gentle, or rude and unsociable I learned no one will love that which gives pain, or after much hard work see little progress.

We conscious creatures, self-determined individuals, have feelings and are able to act rationally in life public or private.

Being reflective and objective, we are able work self out of indifference and callousness into knowledge insight and understanding.

People fall into verbal opposition instead of the spirit of argument there is no dialogue only verbal opposition.

The fault lies in telling falsehoods, which is most serious. It makes it impossible knowing and not knowing the face of a friend or the face of an enemy. For they cannot judge what is figurative and what is fact; and anything receive is to likely become indelible and unalterable in mind=; thus it should be where there is most important virtuous thinking.


Purpose passes out of falsehood over above hypotheses into the intellectual sphere. Purpose is nothing else than pure perception a kind of illumination called the unconscious inner working and weaving mind. Thus, inner consciousness is just pure ideality, a mere implicit thought. It can’t be felt; seen tasted is simply undifferentiated pure self-conscious ideality complete.

You will not found anywhere in the field of subjectivity. It is not a matter of clever turns nor allusive phrases, or half utterances but purpose, which consists in open, definite, meaningful, and factual origin.

The problem, no one wants to put energy into understanding what this is too difficult. But philosophy forces its way by natural appeal and very likely some day may emerge into light.

I am taking the path beaten by great philosophical thinkers and I imitate them who are supreme. I know I never will equal their supreme being but at least I would have hit the mark. Philosophers are the same as plants, or anything which there is generation. I mean opposites which are generated out of opposition.

My interpretation of the intellectual world arises from the distinction of the visible and the intelligible world when there is some contradiction and one is the reverse of one and involves the conception of plurality.with the eye of the mind which is knowledge I contemplate truth.

Knowledge is the power upon which we act either in public or private life rationally from youth upward flow into the senses like a breeze from a purer world, is a phenomena sheer intelligence wisdom, insight, understanding, and perception.

How astonishing we have knowledge previously known. Then knowledge might be rightly termed recollection? Those who know remember, consequently, what will be the consequences holds purpose. In other words, suppose something to be or not to be, the ending must look at to be or not to be. Anything that comes into being moves in place . If I changed, I cease to be I am no longer me.

Then knowledge is the process of discovering our purpose here. Those who know only remember. Knowledge is termed recollection because it recalls to mind like an observer, once it is observed it is known. Knowledge without it everything would be confused of what is right or wrong embraces the entire system of consciousness or more so the virtue of consciousness.

Come take a longer more circuitous journey of for nothing imperfect is the measure of anything, never stop short of the most finished picture. Everyone finds in themselves purpose a centrality to extremes; makes no use of images. 

Suppose I tell you the power and capacity of knowledge exists in mind already? And that all images that dwell in mind are imprinted by senses.

The autonomous self-determining, feeling, perceiving, reasoning, willing, and reflective mind is supreme ruler
 
doubt proceeds straight away to criticism brings about despair but wait could it be possible that doubt is ineeded. Wait and see whether those feelings of doubt may well be the struggle to preserve self.

 

That is what knowledge brings to light doubt, is sure to pass by means of knowledge and good. Then being right or wrong is the phenomenon of knowledge embraces the entire system of consciousness or more so the virtue of consciousness.

Our purpose is nothing else than our pure ideal being, or more so our pure thought within self which is that inner truth implicit power within everyone. Then makes purpose complete is belief, but undifferentiated self-conscious ideal simple belief has no support, can not stand alone is merely ideal no inherent standpoint without any action because actions have consequences. Purpose belongs wholly to inner self- determination moves in pursuit of what interests or what should interest us is purpose.

I cannot help imitating that with which I hold reverential, I mean that I will first look at absolute and again at the human copy; I will mingle and temper the various elements of nto the image and thus I will conceive accordingly as Homer call the form and likeness of God. So often quick intelligence, memory, sagacity, cleverness, and similar qualities, do not grow together, those who possess them are at the same time high-spirited and magnanimous are not so constituted by nature as to live orderly and in a peaceful and settled manner; they are driven any way by their impulses, and all solid principle goes out of them. The high-spirited steadfast natures which can be depended upon in a battle are impregnable to fear and are equally immovable when there is anything to be learned; they are always in a torpid state, and are apt to yawn and go to sleep over any intellectual toil.

The two forces, in the lower or which mind uses the figures given by the former division as images; and can only be hypothetical, and instead of going upwards to a principle descends to the other end. In the higher mind passes out of opinions, and go on until they arrive at last in a consistent manner the good.


Here then introduces the enormous difference into historic situation, whether I am free merely in self or whether I know that it is concept, vocation, and nature, to be free individual. All these individual moments, consciousness, self-consciousness, reason, is the process of belief generally “spirit in its totality”.
 
"I" the independent self-subsistence, which belongs to each individually. Believes in self pervades and permeates all aspects of its actual being. Self within self; it does not get isolated, and become one with itself: rather spirit collects all these moments into its own content, keeps them together, and advances within this total wealth of its concrete actual spirit within self and receive together in common the like determinate character of oneself. This I certain of itself and the process it goes through this is their true reality 

“Spirit in its totality” the embodiment adopted by its own consciousness, remains filled by the certainty of “I”, negates self-consciousness, and disappears. The immediate unity of “I” with self is the fundamental basis, or pure consciousness, shut up within its pure self-consciousness does not exist in religion as the creator of a nature in general; rather what it produces in the course of this process are its shapes “I”, which together constitute all that it can reveal when it is completely revealed. And this process itself is the development of its perfect and complete actuality through the individual aspects. Socrates said, the ignorant do not know are too busy looking down and their heads stooping to the earth, their pleasures are mixed with pains -- mere shadows and pictures of being; and fight about the shadow of Helen at Troy in ignorance of the truth.”

To seek truth we must clear out opinion it causes dishonest administration. This is no easy task, to leave a clean slate but whether easy or not lays the difference between great societies. Nothing imperfect is the measure of anything, the highest truth worthy of attaining the highest truth is good, that is the highest all other things become useful and advantageous only by good.

The sophist calls good to be that in, which the wild beast takes pleasure in and evil to be that which the wild beast has an aversion. The true philosopher uses opinion not as fact , but as a hypotheses only. That is to say a step of departure into a world which is above opinion, they only hinder the acquisition of knowledge. The pathway of knowledge whole realm of the truth and in such that truth is set forth as consciousness or more so virtuous consciousness.

Feelings are inaccurate witness. Knowledge leads self out of the sea of change to the highest good, where things become useful and advantageous.

Our saving grace about real and false opinion is courage. Courage is a mighty agent, under all circumstances preserves, and does not lose courage; it is more than any soda or lye; or does not lose courage by grief, terror, and longing, the mightiest of all solvents in mind.

I myself believed that I if I knew what I was talking about: declaring truth on matters, which is honored and loved among us who love truth. These things of such high interest I have most need to be sure of my footing . I think that to do an unintentional crime is a less bad than falsehood. That is the risk, which I would rather run among enemies than friends, and therefore I did well to have courage. I am out of depth and as the saying goes whether fallen into a little swimming pool or in mid-ocean has to try to reach the shore.

Goethe believed, if you want to describe something and grasp the spirit of it, gather it’s meaning, you must leave it alone, and adjust to it Nature is not the affair of the imagination, but a scientific facts with statements of specific characters and subject matter.

To be ignorant of Nature to think it other, or other then
you cannot continue.

Science today is blinded by profit finding endless varieties of ways of using Nature, wearing it down; in short annihilating it; Today science acts on the absolute belief that nature is nothing but a mere transformation.



Real thought is factual insofar as it is truth. Thought subject matter is self. This infinite relation to self, is infinite, from self-determination.

Like the seed is simple, almost a point; even through a microscope it can scarcely be seen. This simple self, is pregnant with all the qualities of self. The same in the seed is contained the whole tree, its trunk, branches, leaves, its color, odor, taste, etc. does not yet exist.



This, then, introduces difference within whether free merely in self or free individual. I am free, but it is also free for self; and I am, only to the extent that I exist as free.

What is in self is for it one and the same. If the self were no longer self, then something else would be there, and a complete change would have taken place. . Self is something maintained in the unity of the original self.

“To feel is the privilege of higher natures and the higher the nature, the more unhappiness it feels.” Hegel.

Feelings sometimes deceive me even concerning the simplest matters that are subject to error.I am taking the path beaten by great philosophical thinkers and I imitate them who are supreme. I know I never will equal their supreme but at least I would have hit the mark. Philosophers are the same as plants, or anything which there is generation. I mean opposites which are generated out of opposition.

What prevails over purpose ids feelings and that is a struggle for me, like any struggle of division he same holds true of inner self and outer, generation and destruction, being and not being.

I mean what is truth but reality? The pure inner essential being of one comes forward with the world over against is the whole Godly relation between inner and outer just like the crystal nucleus that lets the molecules integrants attach themselves to the outside of the nucleus in a kind of successive series. as immaterial becoming material by crystallizing the immaterial through and through its place. This silent activity sets forth without action, merely shapes, and links together all the indifferent parts.

The old order of things has broken and with the old ways of thinking was let to sink into the past. This gradual crumbling to pieces, brings to view the form and structure of the new world.
The vision of truth and keep a firm hold on it and not let sounds and sights, which are incapable of seeing or loving absolute beauty or who, if lead him to a knowledge of absolute beauty puts the copy hurled down, without more ado and without any justification, into the abyss of emptiness is what Hegel believed


To see an oak with all its vigor of trunk, its spreading branches, and mass of foliage, we are not satisfied to be shown an acorn instead, Hegel believed. He thought the same way of philosophy, the crowning glory of a spiritual world, is not found complete in its initial stages. The beginning of the new spirit is the outcome of a widespread revolution in manifold forms of spiritual culture; it is the reward, which comes after a varied and devious course of development, and after much struggle and effort. But this abstract whole is only found in the past shapes and forms, which are now reduced to mere idea are developing anew again, but developed and shaped within this new order of things.