Philosophy Quote by Carol Plum-Ucci

“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

“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

“Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel”

— Tom Holland

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

“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

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

“Why bother with other people's worlds made of words? was his philosophy.”

— Sara Nelson

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

“Adept as he was in the Hegelian dialectic — a system easy of abuse by those who seek to dominate thought by arbitrary flights…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Should we care about philosopher if the world so clearly doesn't?”

— N.D. Wilson

“The prophetic element in Marx’s creed was dominant in the minds of his followers. It swept everything else aside, banishing the power of cool…

— Karl R. Popper

“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