Philosophy of Art

and there is an absolute truth. This Absolute is the subject of philosophy; the Absolute is ideal and real, or rather, the identity of both. Philosophy is the representation of the Absolute in the ideal; art is the representation of the same in the real. This One is in its essence indivisible, and returns in different forms always as the same.
The Absolute is also the original: "∞" infinite and unlimited. By its form it is limited, but by its essence it is nevertheless original: "∞" infinite, and thereby the idea is represented. The ideas are in turn powers original: "Potenze", and represent the outer and individual spheres of the Absolute. What appears to us as something particular is only the form, the type, the exponent; the essence is the judgment-free Absolute, which is present everywhere with its totality. That it appears under different forms and exponents, being now more and now less visible, changes nothing in the essence. They are only stages of the appearance of one and the same essence, which stages one can properly call powers, just as in mathematics, various powers always rely on a fundamental relationship to the base, which always exists under different