"It was also Hegel who established the view……" — Walter Kaufmann
"It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before."
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Walter Kaufmann
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25 Quotes by Walter Kaufmann
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When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic…
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Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the…
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Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack…
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Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to…
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Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading…
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Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.
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No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character…
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The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose -…
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Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate;…
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one…
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A comprehended god is no god.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that…
— Joseph Addison
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Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation.…
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies…
— Herman Melville
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For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it…
— David Hilbert
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Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand…
— C W Ceram
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A comprehended God is no God at all!
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It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created…
— Herman Bavinck
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The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is…
— Carl Jung
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If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind…
— Frederick Law Olmsted
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He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is…
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