“ G.W.F. Hegel . "He's perfect," Weishaupt wrote… "Unlike Kant , who makes sense only in German, this man doesn't make sense… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Schopenhauer on Hegel: "A flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan.” — Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“For Hegel , by contrast, liberal society is a reciprocal and equal agreement among citizens to mutually recognize each other” — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
“Trying to attack Hegel's ideas from the inside is like trying to loosen the hangman's rope by tugging at the noose.” — Nigel Hems Copy Share Image
“As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel” — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“And again, just in case we have missed Hegel’s point: “A single person, I need hardly say, is something subordinate, and as… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“Hegel's philosophy is very difficult—he is, I should say, the hardest to understand of all the great philosophers. Before entering on any… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Surely the world will be a better place, at least marginally, if people have a better understanding of Kant and Hegel, if… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“I once had a friend at Oxford who drifted into the study of Hegel, that famously impenetrable German philosopher, and was never… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“When I was young, most teachers of philosophy in British and American universities were Hegelians, so that, until I read Hegel, I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
“Man's nature, he postulated, was to be a "free conscious producer," but so far he had not been able to express himself… — Robert C. Tucker Copy Share Image
“History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“If I were to say that the so-called philosophy of this fellow Hegel is a colossal piece of mystification which will yet… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
“Hegel asserts that the real is rational, and the rational is real. But when he says this he does not mean by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“May Hegel's philosophy of absolute nonsense - three-fourths cash and one-fourth crazy fancies - continue to pass for unfathomable wisdom without anyone… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“According to Hegel -- to use the Marxist terminology -- Religion is only an ideological superstructure that is born and exists solely… — Alexandre Kojève Copy Share Image
“The fascist appeal to ‘human nature’ is to our passions, to our collectivist mystical needs, to ‘man the unknown’. Adopting Hegel’s words… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“The mystery of this courage of Bauer’s is Hegel’s Phenomenology. As Hegel here puts self-consciousness in the place of man, the most… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Spinoza formulated the profoundly important principle that *all determination is negation*. To determine a thing is to cut it off from some… — W.T. Stace Copy Share Image
“Both Hegel and Marx believed that the evolution of human societies was not open-ended, but would end when mankind had achieved a… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep," Jess intoned as they took the path down from the parking lot. She had imagined… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“Wither knew that everything was lost. It is incredible how little this knowledge moved him. What had been in his far-off youth… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through Logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image