Black hole Quote by Charles Krauthammer

“When I was young, most teachers of philosophy in British and American universities were Hegelians, so that, until I read Hegel, I supposed there…

— 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

“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

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

“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

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

Since substance is infinite, the universe as a whole, i.e., god, Hegel is telling us that philosophy is knowledge of the infinite, of the…

— Frederick C. Beiser

“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

“It is indeed possible to be widely read, as I am, and still have black holes in one's knowledge.”

— Lauren Baratz-Logsted

“Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal…

— Pam Grout

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