 When I do hard theoretical work…I feel clear too that the world has a sense, and that no other philosophy [than Hegel’s] expresses this sense satisfactorily. But in my more frequent mood of mild depression, I am not a Hegelian: I regress to a materialism which is not, I fear, at all dialectical. I see the world as devoid of sense, I submit masochistically to its senselessness, even taking more comfort in its cold credibility than in the rational desirability of Hegelianism. (“The Contemporary Relevance of Hegel”, 1959a [LMV: 231]) 