“Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.”

—  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Introduction to the Critical Journal of Philosophy, cited in W. Kaufmann, Hegel (1966), p. 56

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