Georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel Quote by Bertrand Russell

“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

“I once had a friend at Oxford who drifted into the study of Hegel, that famously impenetrable German philosopher, and was never seen again.…

— Charles Krauthammer

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…

— Andrew Hodges

“Time to silence the Hegelian Dialect”

— Dean Cavanagh

“What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school?”

— Erich Maria Remarque