/lit/ - Literature

Hegel:
>Or, again, it's fear of the truth that may lead consciousness to hide, from itself and others, behind the pretension that it's burning zeal for truth makes it difficult or even impossible to find any other truth but the unique truth of vanity—that of being at any rate cleverer than any thoughts that one gets by oneself or others. This conceit which understands how to belittle every truth, in order to turn back into itself and gloat over its own understanding, which knows how to dissolve every thought and always find the same barren Ego instead of any content—this is a satisfaction we must leave to itself, for it flees from the universal, and seeks only to be for itself.