"Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel."

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To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star led me from Hegel to Schopenhauer . . . Even in Kant there were many things that I could grasp so little that given his general acuity of mind I almost suspected that he was pulling the reader's leg or was even an imposter.

— Ludwig Boltzmann