Hegel famous quotes

In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

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Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk.
-- Eugene Mirman

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Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
-- Friedrich Engels

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
-- George Bernard Shaw

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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.
-- George Steiner

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Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
-- Iris Murdoch

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Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.
-- Jostein Gaarder

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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
-- Karl Jaspers

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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.
-- Merold Westphal

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As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.
-- Paul A. Baran

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Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.
-- Allen W. Wood

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Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.
-- Allen W. Wood

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Georg Hegel viewed the "great men" as instruments of something far greater. Hegel believes that an individual can indeed embody the zeitgeist for a moment, but also that the individual isn't always clear they are doing so.
-- Emmanuel Macron

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Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel.
-- Frederick C. Beiser

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