Therefore, the history of the human race, the throng of events, the change of times, the multifarious forms of human life in different lands and countries, all this is only the accidental form of the manifestation of the Idea, does not belong to the Idea itself, in which alone lies the adequate objectivity of the will, but only to the phenomenon which appears in the knowledge of the individual, and is just as foreign, unessential, and indifferent to the Idea itself as the figures which they assume are to the clouds, the form of its eddies and foam-flakes to the brook, or its trees and flowers to the ice.
ondorioz gizakiaren historia, gertakarien metaketa, aldien aldaketa giza bizitzaren forma eranitzak herrialde eta mende desberdinetan-hori guztia ideiaren agerpenaren forma kontingentea besterik ez da, eta ez dagokio horri, zeinean baitago nahimenaren objektitate egokia soilik, baizik agerpenari bakarrik, banakoaren ezagutzan erortzen denari, eta ideiari berari hain arrotz, ez-esentzial eta axolagabe zaiona hodeiei aurkezten dituzten figurak bezala, errekari bere zurrunbiloen eta bitsezko figuren taxua, izotzari bere zuhaitzak eta loreak bezala.