The same contradiction reasserts itself that lies at the heart of the infinite progress, namely of a being bent upon itself which is at the same time outside itself, which refers to its other as to its non being and in this referring remains a longing: for the 'I' has fixed itself, on the one side, with its indigent and insufferable emptiness before it, and, on the other side, with a fullness which in being negated is still present as its beyond.