Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“My criticism of Hegel procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“When a father inquired about the best method of educating his son in ethical conduct, a Pythagorean replied: "Make him a citizen… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 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
“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
“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
“Yet mere membership as a matter of duty is not enough for Hegel, given the grandeur of the state’s divine historical purpose:… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the… — Donald Phillip Verene Copy Share Image
“Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all material, natural and spiritual… — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Copy Share Image
When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“the beauty of nature appears only as a reflectin of the beauty,that belongs to spirit, as an imperfect incomplete mode [of beauty],… — T.M. Knox Copy Share Image
Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But… — David Stove Copy Share Image
“The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual and generation finds in existence as something… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“For Hegel, reality is the absolute, which exists in a dialectical evolution that is logical and rational in character. According to his… — Julián Marías Copy Share Image
As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there!… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“Istilah gattungswesen menunjuk pada keunikan manusia sebagai makhluk yang mempunyai kesadaran, bukan sekedar kesadaran akan diri sendiri, tetapi juga kesadaran untuk merenungkan… — Kurnia Putra Copy Share Image
“In seeing the thinkers in this tradition as embodying a certain fundamental viewpoint, I am far from denying that there is disagreement between… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Under Weiss’s direction, Grace began to delve deeply into writings and ideas that would shape the rest of her life. To begin… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“When we say, "God is love," we are saying something very great and true. But it would be senseless to grasp this… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Should you ever intend to dull the wits of a young man and to incapacitate his brains for any kind of thought… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Man must be an emptiness, a nothingness, which is not a pure nothingness (reines Nichts), but something that is to the extent… — Alexandre Kojève Copy Share Image
“My application's not bought,' I am telling them, calling into the darkness of the red cave that opens out before closed eyes.… — David Foster Wallace 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
“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
“ 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
“...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
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
“What history teaches us is that men have never learned anything from it.” —G. W. F. Hegel, nineteenth-century German philosopher” — Frank Viola Copy Share Image
Hegel said that 'truth' is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human… — Jostein Gaarder 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
In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image