I think...

... that I hate Hegel. I've only read half a page of him and I already want to scream.

There is, of course, the possibility that I am just too stupid to understand him. A distinct possibility, I am afraid. Not that I believe that anyone else in that course understands him, either.

Quite possibly including the lecturer.

"Der Geist, der sich in diese Weise der Natürlichkeit kleidet,

läßt seine besonderen Gestaltungen auseinanderfallen, denn das Auseinander ist die Form der Natürlichkeit." (Hegel)

What the *frell* does that sentence mean? I know I probably shouldn't get hung up on one sentence, but this one is so devoid of any kind of understandable meaning to my poor limited mind that it just really annoys me. I mean, I could make some sort of sense of the text up until then, but this is where it gets incomprehensible to me. And no, I can't translate it into English - to translate it, I would have to understand it at least a little bit.