Wisdom belongs to age rather than to youth, for it has seen its finest hopes wither and die. Hegel's itinerary leads not to the realization of the Absolute, the perfect realization of knowledge by itself, but into the supreme momentousness, the very heart, of nihilism . In grasping its own essence, consciousness grasps and closes upon its own nothingness . An idea, as a category, does not contain within itself entirely equatable things, nor does it stand as the indication of an eidetic primality to which all similar things correspond as though to a model or pattern. Rather, every idea contains within itself a synthetic correspondence, an equating of the inequatable.
Nature is system , or that which comes to be as the actuality of result.
In seeking knowledge we seek that which finally cannot be our belonging, for it is we who belong to it, as instrument, means, medium. Power is not the root of all things, neither unmoved mover nor cause of causes. Being is a false formula. What the word points to is representation, interpretation, even illusion, fiction, deception. A drive to dominate through force stands as a will to power to the degree that it strives to attain an end connotative with power and identified with it.