But thinking must not confine itself to abstract negation. The illusion that it is possible to take hold of the many directly would regress to mythology, to a diffuse greyness just as at the opposite pole unity thinking would mean the imitation of blind nature by suppressing it, mythical domination.
the enduring power of hegel's thought lay in the fact that he restored to philosophy the right and the ability to think in terms of contents, instead of letting itself be fobbed off with the analysis of empty and trivial forms of cognition