Summary
Gottfried Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Lectures on the proofs for the existence of God
It has already been sufficiently demonstrated that the elevated - be it in feeling or in belief, or however the way of its spiritual existence was determined - takes place in the Innermost of the spirit, on the ground of thought; religion, as the innermost spirit of man, has the center and root of its pulsation in it. God is essentially a thought, an opinion only, no matter how further his representation and appearance, as well as the image and manner of religion as feeling, seeing, believing, etc., are determined. Cognition does not do anything other than that it brings the Innermost for itself to the announcement, that mental pulse mentally reaches. Knowledge in this can be one-sided, and feeling, perception, and belief can belong to an even greater and essential religion, as well as to God a little further than his mental and imaginary concept; but that Innermost is found in it, and to know about it means to think about it, and to know it means only to know that Innermost in its essential determination.
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