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
“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
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
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
Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author. — 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 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
“Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Down with dialectics!” — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I… — John Grierson 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
In Marxism there are some very unhelpful ideas about the need to push for a revolution that will overturn all of society.… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
“The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know?… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
H.P.Lovecraft could've been trying to do a Marx to Hegel, that kind of thing, in other words, turn the thing upside down… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Logic is also the theory of knowledge of Marxism, but for quite another reason, because the forms themselves of the activity of… — Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov Copy Share Image
Protestantism, of course, is much more explicitly divided into different traditions - the Pentecostals, the Anglicans. But there is the main tradition… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.'… — Jürgen Habermas 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
“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
“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
“Even if (as I myself believe) almost all Hegel's doctrines are false, he still retains an importance which is not merely historical,… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists… — Wilfred Trotter 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
![“And again, just in case we have missed Hegel’s point: “A single person, I need hardly say, is something subordinate, and as such he must dedicate himself to the ethical whole.” And again echoing Rousseau: “Hence, if the state claims life, the individual must surrender it.”[216]” quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91e/stephen-r-c-hicks-12692_hegel_and-again-just-in-case-we-have-missed-he_2668561.jpg)
![“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in The Dream of John Ball that men fight for things and then lose the battle…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53d/christopher-hitchens-117_age_o-ne-has-to-have-endured-a-few-decades-b_1102939.jpg)
![“[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.' In it, Rorty describes how as a youth he ambled around the blooming hillside in north-west New Jersey, and breathed in the stunning odour of…” quote by Jürgen Habermas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a33/jurgen-habermas-12339_atheism_j-rgen-habermas-obituary-to-friend-and-p_673632.jpg)
![“the beauty of nature appears only as a reflectin of the beauty,that belongs to spirit, as an imperfect incomplete mode [of beauty], a mode which in its substance is contained in the spirit itself" *hegel” quote by T.M. Knox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd3/t-m-knox-281189_beauty_the-beauty-of-nature-appears-only-as-a-r_803314.jpg)
![“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 worship the state as a terrestrial divinity.”[211]” quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/371/stephen-r-c-hicks-12692_hegel_yet-mere-membership-as-a-matter-of-duty_229759.jpg)
