# 71. Schelling, Fichte, Hegel

Schelling erred about nature not because he sought spirit in it, but because there is more spirit in it than he could find; because he sought to grasp the spirit of nature in the mere reflection of the spirit that lies in human thought.

Instead of observing nature, creating nature.

Fichte erred about man, not because he sought the essence of man in self-will, but because he could not let the whole man emerge from the creative will, but only the idea of man. —

Instead of a doctrine of human life, a doctrine of science.

Hegel did not err about the world-spirit because he wanted to surrender himself to this spirit in his research, but because instead of surrendering himself to this spirit through the ideas, he surrendered to this idea itself. — Instead of surrendering to the world-spirit, fetishism of logic.