Sunday, August 17, 2003

[M]en proclaim as a great mind and profound thinker a dull, ignorant philosophaster, a scribbler of nonsense, who by his ineffably hollow verbiage thoroughly and permanently disorganizes their brains; I refer to our dearly beloved Hegel.
--Schopenhauer, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

I realize that a number of my quotations of Hegel have been nasty, this not the least of them. I really don't have an agenda against him; I just think that philosophers getting personal is amusing. My basic feeling about Schopenhauer, keeping this quote in mind, is: Physician, heal thyself.