"The ‘I’ is at it were the crucible and fire which consumes the loose plurality of sense and reduces it to unity… The tendency of all man’s endeavours is to understand the world, to appropriate and subdue it to himself; and to this end the positive reality of the world must be as it were crushed and pounded, in other words, idealized."

— Hegel, Wissenschaft der Logik. 

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