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 which we must leave to itself.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)

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