One must completely dismiss these assertions and these opinions concerning what reason does, since they are, as it were, of merely historical interest; it is rather the consideration of all things that are that reveals, in them, that each is self unlike and contradictory in its equality with itself, and each self identical in its difference, in its contradiction: that everything intrinsically is this movement of transition of one of these determinations to the other, and that everything is this transition because each determination is itself, within it, the opposite of itself.