Hegel was fond of repeating, in his polemics against the advocates of "feeling" and "immediacy" in religion and philosophy, that human activity is such only in virtue of its thought. His own philosophy is, however, an extended statement of the dilemma at the heart of thought. We may perhaps say it is the dilemma that is expressed in the double sense of the genitive in the above phrase, "its thought". Human activity is the experience of thinking, which is no less the thinking of (about) experience.