To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I … - Ludwig Boltzmann

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I hope,” he replies softly, “to get to know you again. If you are open to it. There is a fog around you that I would like to clear away.

Ludwig Boltzmann

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.

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