We may conclude

that there is no true beginning in philosophy, or rather that the true

philosophical
beginning, Difference, is in-itself already Repetition.

For the substantial self, he substituted a self

profoundly fractured by a line of time; while in the same movement God
and the self encountered a kind of speculative death.

We said above that

representation was defined by certain elements: identity with regard to
concepts, opposition with regard to the determination of concepts, analogy
with regard to judgement, resemblance with regard to objects.

difference becomes an object of

representation always in relation to a conceived identi9" a judged analogy,
an imagined opposition or a perceived similitude.

Thought is primarily trespass and violence, the enemy, and nothing presupposes
philosophy

The sign or point of

departure for that which forces thought is thus the coexistence of
contraries, the coexistence of more and less in an unlimited qualitative
becoming.

To learn to swim is to conjugate the distinctive points of our

bodies with the singular points of the objective Idea in order to form a
problematic field.