We Know Not Through Our Intellect But

Machiavelli Is The Complete Contrary Of A Machiavellian, Since He Describes The Tricks Of Power And Gives The Whole Show Away. The Seducer And The Politician, Who Live In The Dialectic And Have A Feeling And Instinct For It, Try Their Best To Keep It Hidden.

All Thought Of Something Is At The Same Time Self-consciousness [...] At The Root Of All Our Experiences And All Our Reflections, We Find [...] A Being Which Immediately Recognises Itself, [...] And Which Knows Its Own Existence, Not By Observation And As A Given Fact, Nor By Inference From Any Idea Of Itself, But Through Direct Contact With That Existence. Self-consciousness Is The Very Being Of Mind In Action.

The World Is Nothing But 'world-as-meaning.

Thought Without Language, Says Lavelle, Would Not Be A Purer Thought; It Would Be No More Than The Intention To Think. And His Last Book Offers A Theory Of Expressiveness Which Makes Of Expression Not "a Faithful Image Of An Already Realized Interior Being, But The Very Means By Which It Is Realized.

Language Transcends Us And Yet We Speak.