schopenhauer vs. hegel

Schopenhauer on Hegel:

'If I were to say that the so-called philosophy of this fellow Hegel is a colossal piece of mystification which will yet provide posterity with an inexhaustible theme for laughter at our times, that it is a pseudo-philosophy paralyzing all mental powers, stifling all real thinking, and, by the most outrageous misuse of language, putting in its place the hollowest, most senseless, thoughtless, and, as is confirmed by its success, most stupefying verbiage, I should be quite right.

Further, if I were to say that this summus philosophus [...] scribbled nonsense quite unlike any mortal before him, so that whoever could read his most eulogized work, the so-called Phenomenology of Mind, without feeling as if he were in a madhouse, would qualify as an inmate for Bedlam, I should be no less right.'

this quote made me crack up laughing when i read it.. and trust me after studying Hegel last term and spending most of the time struggling to understand even one sentence in the Phenomenology Schopenhauer has a point (the best thing about it all is that Schopenhauer deliberately timetabled his lectures so that they would clash with Hegel's when they were teaching at the same university)..

hopefully ill post about Schopenhauer and his philosophy of music soon..