Of the nineteenth-century philosophers, Hegel put me off by his language, as arrogant as it was laborious; I regarded him with downright mistrust. He seemed to me like a man who was caged in the edifice of his own words and was pompously gesticulating in his prison.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Of the nineteenth-century philosophers, Hegel put me off by his language, as arrogant as it was laborious; I regarded him with downright mistrust. He seemed to me like a man who was caged in the edifice of his own words and was pompously gesticulating in his prison." in the context of "Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), p.69" to mean that wisdom is timeless.