The life of God and divine cognition may well be spoken of as a disporting of Love with itself; but this idea sinks into mere edification, and even insipidity, if it lacks the seriousness, the suffering, the patience, and the labor of the negative.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, from the German philosopher’s 1807 work, Phenomenology of Spirit
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