Philosophy Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Hegel's philosophy is very difficult—he is, I should say, the hardest to understand of all the great philosophers. Before entering on any detail, a…

— Bertrand Russell

“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

“Problem with the big philosophers is they cared about ideas more than people. Hegel would probably have stepped over a guy trying to slit…

— Carol Plum-Ucci

“Schopenhauer on Hegel: "A flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan.”

— Schopenhauer

“My criticism of Hegel procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis in the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“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

“He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through Logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete void.”

— C.S. Lewis

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms…

— Walter Kaufmann

“Doctrinal formulae are neither a set of neat definitions nor some sort of affront to the free-thinking soul; they are words that tell us…

— Rowan Williams

“Clarence Hervey might have been more than a pleasant young man, if he had not been smitten with the desire of being thought superior…

— Maria Edgeworth

One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House…

— Kenny Smith

“He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous…

— Russell Shorto