But (as everyone has to find in the intuition of himself as intellect, something that cannot be demonstrated to anyone) the intellect, as such, is absolutely self determining, nothing but pure activity, in contrast to all subsisting and being posited, no matter how subtly the latter might be thought; hence the intellect is incapable of any determination through its nature and essence (provided it had one), incapable of any tendency, drive, inclination, or anything similar.