this is from the introduction to the critique of pure reason by my glorious king Immanuel Kant, and why I think it’s important to simply/shorten dialectics
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, though probably philosophy's single most acclaimed work, has remained notorious for being obscure and excessively difficult more or less since the day it was published. It has driven some of the finest philosophical minds to despair, or even, owing to the bleakness of its doctrines as much as that of its prose, to the verge of suicide. Many of Kant's readers have therefore chosen, not as a temporary remedy, necessarily, but as a more salutary activity altogether, a walk in fresh air.
Most first-time readers will share the experience described by the Austrian writer Robert Musil of his adolescent hero, Törleß:
When he stopped reading in exhaustion after half an hour he had only reached page two.' Reached, not finished. An unguided beginner, Törleß could easily have got lost as early as the book's motto and dedication. Despite being bemused by the slow speed of his progress and the sweat that had appeared on his forehead, he had taken these first obstacles without faltering. Having nonetheless come to a discomforting realization about the task ahead
