Hegel Quotes
Hegel Quote of the day
Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.
Hegel said that 'truth' is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.
There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.
To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.
Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.
Well, I don’t know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I’m no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel.
That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.
The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.
Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.
That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.
Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.
To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary.
The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.
Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That’s why we don't know so much about stupidity.
