Hegel Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan who reached the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“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

“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

“This [Hegel's philosophy] illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.”

— Bertrand Russell

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

“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

“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

“Time to silence the Hegelian Dialect”

— Dean Cavanagh

“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 who understands philosophy understands laughter. That mysterious Word at the beginning, mentioned in the Bible, is a divine guffaw.”

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical…

— Donald Phillip Verene

“Now pastor Jón Prímus laughed. Philosophy and theology have no effect on him, much less plain common sense. Impossible to convince this man by…

— Halldór Laxness