I am prepared for a demand for money and he wants – truth. Truth! And wants it like that – so bare, so blank, as though truth were coin!… However, such modern coin that is only made by stamp, that one needs only to count upon the counting board – that is not truth by any means. Like money into the bag, should one be able to sweep truth into the head?

Slow Gold – but Everlasting –

The Bullion of Today –

Contrasted with the Currency

Of Immortality –

A Beggar – Here and There –

Is gifted to discern

Beyond the Broker's insight –

One's – Money – One's – the Mine –

The thought which may first occur to us in the history of Philosophy, is that the subject itself contains a contradiction. For Philosophy aims at understanding what is unchangeable, eternal, in and for itself: its end is Truth. But history tells us of that which has at one time existed, at another time has vanished, having been expelled by something else. Truth is eternal; it does not fall within the sphere of the transient, and has no history.