Andrzej Krauze

Everything was grist to his “excerpt mill” — philology and literary history, aesthetics, aphorisms and witticisms, “experiences and physiognomics”, mathematics, physics, psychology, pedagogy and, of course, philosophy. Hegel was already intellectually omnivorous. He wanted to absorb simply everything.

In my studies of the bible I sought to demonstrate the principle that freedom of thought is essential to social existence.