To understand means to simplify. (RussianПонять - значит упростить) [From Strugatsky's SFnovelВолны гасят ветер (Waves blow out the wind, translated to English as The Time Wanderers)]
... After holding the chair of philosophy at Halle for two years, he became, in 1833, professor at the university of Königsberg[?], where he remained till his death. In ...