The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.
Second
As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part of what I learned when I learned about the Second World War and the concentration camps.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.
Woman was God’s second mistake.
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do.
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.