an intellectual concept abstracts from everything sensuous, it is not abstracted from sensuous things, and perhaps would be more correctly called abstracting than abstract. Intellectual concepts it is more cautious, therefore, to call pure ideas, and concepts given only empirically, abstract ideas.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service is joy.

Don't you know that a good and excellent person does nothing for the sake of appearances, but only for the sake of having acted right?