And to preserve the purity of its heart, it flees from contact with actuality, and steadfastly perseveres in a state of self-willed impotence to renounce a self which is pared away to the last point of abstraction, and to give itself substantial existence, or, in other words, to transform its thought into being, and commit itself to absolute distinction [that between thought and being].
eta bere bihotzaren araztasuna mantentzeko, errealitatea ukitzeari ihes egiten dio eta indargabetasun egoskorrari eusten dio, hots, azken abstrakzioraino goratutako norberari uko egiten dio eta bere buruari substantzia ematen dio, edo bere pentsatzea izate bihurtzen du eta bere burua ezberdintasun absolutuaren esku uzten du.