This sort of conceit which understands how to belittle every truth and turn away from it back into itself, and gloats over this its own private understanding, which always knows how to dissipate every possible thought, and to find, instead of all the content, merely the barren Ego-this is a satisfaction which must be left to itself; for it flees the universal and seeks only an isolated existence on its own account (Fersichseyn).
egia oro zapuzten eta hortik bere baitara itzultzen dakiena, eta bere adimen propioaz elikatzen dena, zeinak badakien nola koskortu pentsamendu guztiak; eta eduki ororen ordez nia lehorra besterik aurkitzen ez duen handikeria hori bere buruarekin bakarrik utzi behar da, zeren orokor-denari ihes egiten baitio, eta berbaitarako izatea baino ez baitu bilatzen.