"I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness."

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The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things - may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel