Hegel was the culmination of the movement in German philosophy that started from Kant; although he of criticized Kant, his system could never have arisen if Kant's had not existed.…… Even if (as I myself believe) almost all Hegel's doctrines are false, he still retains an importance which is not n\merely historical, as the best representative of a certain kind of philosophy which, in others, is less coherent and less comprehensive. ——Bertrand Russell "The History of Western Philosophy"