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Goethes problem with hegel or something
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> One day Goethe announced to his daughter-in-law that there would be a guest for lunch, but did not tell her his name, which he had never omitted to do before, and did not introduce the guest when he arrived. Mute bows on both sides. During the meal Goethe said comparatively little, presumably in order to give free rein to his very talkative guest, who unfolded his thoughts with great logical acumen and in oddly complicated syntax. His increasingly animated exposition, with its quite new terminology, its intellectually elliptical style of expression, and its strange philosophical formulae, finally reduced Goethe to complete silence, though the guest did not notice this. The hostess also listened silently, no doubt glancing at her papa (as she always called Goethe) in some surprise. When the meal had come to an end and their guest departed, Goethe asked his daughter-in-law: "Well, how do you like him?" "How very strange he is. I can't make out whether he's brilliant or crazy. He didn't seem to me to be a very clear thinker." Goethe smiled ironically, "Well, well! We have just had lunch with a man who is now the most famous of modern philosophers—Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel.”
M.J. Petry’s translation, Hegel's Philosophy of Nature: Volume I, 1970, pp. 63-64.
