Best Hegel Quotes

#1. Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as the simple function of one money-variable over time, with a long-term trend which increases monotonically.

John Carroll

#2. Marx inverted Hegel's dialectics and stood it right side up, on its feet.

David Harvey

#3. ... in the case where the self is merely represented and ideally presented (vorgestellt), there it is not actual: where it is by proxy, it is not. -Hegel, Phenomenology of Mind

Guy Debord

#4. Even if (as I myself believe) almost all Hegel's doctrines are false, he still retains an importance which is not merely historical, as the best representative of a certain kind of philosophy which, in others, is less coherent and less comprehensive.

Bertrand Russell

#5. As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.

Paul A. Baran

#6. When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

Walter Kaufmann

#7. Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

Friedrich Engels

#8. This third step Hegel called the Negation of the Negation. With the continued operation of the negation, a new thing or being comes into existence.

Anonymous

#9. In the summer of 1913, Kafka bangs endlessly on about 'necessity,' that favorite concept of every German since Hegel who ever planned to do something morally dubious.

James Hawes

#10. When a father inquired about the best method of educating his son in ethical conduct, a Pythagorean replied: Make him a citizen of a state with good laws

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#11. Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

Simone De Beauvoir

#12. My criticism of Hegel procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis in the universe.

Alfred North Whitehead

#13. At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

Karl Jaspers

#14. He described what he knew best or had heard most, and felt he had described the universe. (on Hegel)

George Santayana

#15. 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

#16. In the words of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, "Human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds.

Alena Graedon

#17. It's exciting to hear them talking about poetry and science and philosophy - about Shakespeare and Milton; Newton and Einstein and Freud; about Plato and Hegel and Kant, and all the other names that echo like great church bells in my mind.

Daniel Keyes