Full Idea
As an activity of the particular, thinking has the categories as its only product and content.
Gist of Idea
Thought about particulars is done entirely through categories
Source
Georg W.F.Hegel (Logic (Encyclopedia I) [1817], §62)
Book Reference
Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'The Hegel Reader', ed/tr. Houlgate,Stephen [Blackwell 1998], p.163
A Reaction
There seems to be an interesting implication in this remark (taken in isolation!) that one can somehow transcend the categories when one begins to think about the universal. Are the universal and the categories not connected?