For if a question is absurd in itself and calls for an answer where none is required, it not only brings shame on the propounder of the question, but may betray an incautious listener into absurd answers, thus presenting, as the ancients said, the ludicrous spectacle of one man milking a he-goat and the other holding a sieve underneath.”

“When philosophy paints its grey in grey, then has a shape of life grown old.

By philosophy’s grey in grey it cannot be rejuvenated, but only understood.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.”

Georg WF Hegel (1770-1831)