“...Why did just my eyes adore you - Have you ever wondered that? well, as Hegel said, “Too fair to worship, too… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
“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
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
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers. — Alain de Botton 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
“Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel” — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Berkeley , Hume, Kant , Fichte , Hegel , James , Bergson all are united in one earnest attempt, the attempt to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan who… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing common to the great modern speculative philosophers, Leibniz, Hegel and Deleuze, it is the risk that re-animating… — Christian Kerslake Copy Share Image
“Hegel believed that the basis of human cognition changed from one generation to the next. There were therefore no 'eternal truths', no… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Georg Hegel viewed the "great men" as instruments of something far greater. Hegel believes that an individual can indeed embody the zeitgeist… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Unwittingly, then, the philosophers of the Enlightenment instigated the end of ancien régimes everywhere – in thought if not in fact. They… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
There's a sense in which Marx does contribute to the fund of human knowledge, and we can no more dismiss him than… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Life is more than thought: what a man feels, and what his senses awaken in him, are more indispensable to his life's… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“Whereas Kant maintains a single, static set of experience-organizing processes necessarily linked to experience and so not transcendent but transcendental, Hegel posits… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Hegel claimed that the 'world spirit' is developing toward an ever-expanding knowledge of itself. It's the same with rivers--they become broader and… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“to Hegel, history was like a running river. Every tiny movement in the water at a given spot in the river is… — Jostein Gaarder 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
“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
“Epic art is founded on action, and the model of a society in which action could play out in greatest freedom was… — Milan Kundera 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
“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
“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
“It is all very well to have some internal sense of oneself as an individual, but that sense must correspond to an… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
“Doctrinal formulae are neither a set of neat definitions nor some sort of affront to the free-thinking soul; they are words that… — Rowan Williams 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
“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
“For Hegel , by contrast, liberal society is a reciprocal and equal agreement among citizens to mutually recognize each other” — Francis Fukuyama 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
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Schopenhauer on Hegel: "A flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan.” — Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“ 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
“This [Hegel's philosophy] illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image