“In the words of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, “Human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds.” — Alena Graedon Copy Share Image
“If it were Hegel , I might suspect it means nothing. But Goethe means something, always.” — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost. — Karl Jaspers 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
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
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
“Ever since Hegel, world history, in contrast to historia , seems to be precisely what one has not seen and experienced, inquired… — Karl Löwith 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
Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“Problem with the big philosophers is they cared about ideas more than people. Hegel would probably have stepped over a guy trying… — Carol Plum-Ucci Copy Share Image
An abiding and central concern of philosophy and religion alike is the fear that the world is alien to human beings, that… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Most "process" philosophy is historicist (e.g., Hegel) and not concerned with "deep time." Maybe Whitehead is an exception. He may be a… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me,… — Paul Ricoeur 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
“One senses that Hegel was possible only in German, and finds it natural that Locke in a language where large and red… — Hugh Kenner 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
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
The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals… — Kenny Smith 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
“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
“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
“Hegel did not deceive himself about the revolutionary character of his dialectic, and was even afraid that his Philosophy of Right would… — Franz Mehring Copy Share Image
“It seems as if historicist ideas easily become prominent in times of great social change. They appeared when Greek tribal life broke… — Karl Popper 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
“but on Hegel, his "idealist" predecessor who was the first philosopher to answer Kant's challenge of writing a Universal History. For Hegel's… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended… — Walter Kaufmann 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
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
“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
“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, 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
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
Berkeley , Hume, Kant , Fichte , Hegel , James , Bergson all are united in one earnest attempt, the attempt to… — David Hume 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
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