In the notion of insight there lies not merely this, that consciousness knows itself in the object it looks at, and finds itself directly there, without first quitting the thought element and then returning into itself; the notion implies as well that consciousness is aware of itself as being also the mediating process, aware of itself as active, as the agency of production.
-Ulermenaren adigaian ez dugu honako hau bakarrik, alegia, kontzientziak ulertzen duen objektuan bere burua berrezagutzen duela eta pentsatutakoa baztertu gabe eta pentsatutakotik bere baitara itzuli gabe bertan bere burua bitartegabe daukala, baizik eta honako hau ere bai, hots, bere buruaz jabetzen dela higidura bitartekaria edo egite edo ekoizte bezala;