Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary ….

Georg Hegel (1770-1831) German philosopher
Phänomenologie des Geistes [The Phenomenology of the Spirit] (1807)

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