Francesco De Sanctis, Thomas Haskell Simpson
"...Hegel is the greatest sinner, because the public’s head can't make room for intellectual intuition. With his dialectical process, Hegel gave an appearance of harmony to this philosophical monstrosity. He was its designer and architect, making the original sin durable. So Schopenhauer tore him to pieces. Charlatan, insipid, stupid, nauseating, an ignoramus whose shamelessness was touted as wisdom by cowardly followers; the true author of our century’s intellectual corruption. Schopenhauer can’t contain his indignation: “O, you admirers of this philosophy . . . ?” How can I say it? The Italian language is too demure; I can’t translate the emphatic epithet Arthur pins on this philosophy,. . . "
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