Since, however this enemy creates itself in its very defeat, consciousness, by giving the enemy a fixedness of being and of meaning, instead of getting rid of him, really never gets away from him and finds itself constantly defiled. And since, at the same time, this object of its exertions, instead of being something essential, is the very meanest, instead of being a universal, is the merest particular-we have here before us merely a personality confined within its narrow self and its petty activity, a personality brooding over itself, as unfortunate as it is pitiably destitute.
Baina etsai horrek bere porrotean bere burua sortzen duelako, kontzientzia, horri itsasten zaionez, hortik askatu beharrean, beti berari lotuta mantentzen da eta beti bere burua zikintzat dauka; eta bere ahaleginaren eduki hori, aldi berean, zerizanezko den zerbait izan beharrean, zitalena denez, orokor-dena izan beharrean, banakoena denez, bada, bere baitara eta bere egite txikiraino mugatu den eta horretan tematzen den nortasuna besterik ez dugu ikusten, zoritzarrekoa nahiz txiroa den nortasuna.