Force is a whole, which is in its own self negative self-relation
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Science of Logic (1816). copy citation

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Author Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Source Science of Logic
Topic force self-knowledge
Date 1816
Language English
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Note Translated by William Wallace
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/55108/55108-h/55108-h.htm

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“Such an appeal is no better than an arbitrary dogmatism, which contravenes the express command of Christianity, to know God in spirit and in truth, and is prompted by a humility which is not Christian, but born of ostentatious bigotry. 137.] Force is a whole, which is in its own self negative self-relation; and as such a whole it continually pushes itself off from itself and puts itself forth. But since this reflection-into-another (corresponding to the distinction between the Parts of the Whole) is equally a reflection-into-self, this out-putting is the way and means by which Force that returns back into itself is as a Force.” source