Philosophy Quote by Bertrand Russell

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

— Bertrand Russell

“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

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

Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring it closer…

— Kenny Smith

“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

“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

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

Hegel said that 'truth' is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.

— Jostein Gaarder

“Logic matters. It leads us from simple ideas to surprising conclusions.”

— Steven E. Landsburg

“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

— Jonathan V. Last

“The truth may not always be desirable, that one thing leads to another thing, that facts not only lead forward to resolution, but backwards…

— Sebastian Barry