Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history…

“For Hegel , by contrast, liberal society is a reciprocal and equal agreement among citizens to mutually recognize each other”

— Francis Fukuyama

That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.

— Allen W. Wood

People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment…

— David Stove

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

— Karl Jaspers

“My application's not bought,' I am telling them, calling into the darkness of the red cave that opens out before closed eyes. 'I am…

— David Foster Wallace

“Should you ever intend to dull the wits of a young man and to incapacitate his brains for any kind of thought whatever, then…

— Karl R. Popper

“Yet mere membership as a matter of duty is not enough for Hegel, given the grandeur of the state’s divine historical purpose: “One must…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical…

— Donald Phillip Verene

“For Hegel, reality is the absolute, which exists in a dialectical evolution that is logical and rational in character. According to his famous statement,…

— Julián Marías

“Ever since Hegel, world history, in contrast to historia , seems to be precisely what one has not seen and experienced, inquired after and…

— Karl Löwith

The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It has been…

— Roberto Esposito

“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 varied human…

— Karl Marx

“The fascist appeal to ‘human nature’ is to our passions, to our collectivist mystical needs, to ‘man the unknown’. Adopting Hegel’s words just quoted,…

— Karl R. Popper

Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.

— Allen W. Wood

“Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel”

— Tom Holland