His friend, the philosopher Giovanni Gentile encouraged him to read Hegel.

He read Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Kant when only fourteen years old and excelled at languages.

Along the way, we read Hobbes, Locke, John Stuart Mill, Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Hegel.

Even Lacan is just a tool for me to read Hegel.

Difficulties within Hegel's language and thought are magnified for those reading Hegel in translation, since his philosophical language and terminology in German often do not have direct analogues in other languages.

The difficulty in reading Hegel was perceived in Hegel's own day, and persists into the 21st century.

Visiting his aunt and sisters in Germany during the vacations, he learned German and began to read Hegel and the German philosophers.

But if you read Hegel, you're not going to understand it.

Whether he actually read Hegel or not is a matter of dispute.

Its opening rhyme is: "As I was reading Hegel over coffee and a bagel. "