Dialectics of desire

“The ‘beautiful’, the ‘holy’, the ‘eternal’, ‘religion’, and ‘love’ are the bait required to arouse the desire to bite; not the Notion, but ecstasy, not the cold march of necessity in the thing itself, but the ferment of enthusiasm, there are supposed to be what sustains and continually extends the wealth of substance”

Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, §7

Foto: costa alentejana, Agosto '05.