"To help bring philosophy closer to the form of Science, to
    the goal where it can lay aside the title '_love_ of 
    knowing' and be _actual_ knowing -- that is what I have set
    myself to do."

   "To judge a thing that has substance and solid worth is 
    quite easy, to comprehend it is much harder, and to blend
    judgment and comprehension in a definitive description is
    the hardest thing of all."

   "The more conventional opinion gets fixated on the 
    antithesis of truth and falsity, the more it tends to 
    expect a given philosophical system to be either accepted
    or contradicted; and hence it finds only acceptance or
    rejection."

   "The bud disappears in the bursting-forth of the blossom,
    and one might say that the former is refuted by the 
    latter.... Yet at the same time their fluid nature makes 
    them moments of an organic unity in which they not only
    do not conflict, but in which each is as necessary as the 
    other."

   "[T]he real issue is not exhausted by stating it as an aim, 
    but by carrying it out, nor is the result the actual whole,
    but rather the result together with the process through 
    which it came about."

    - G.W.F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit, Preface