Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

Philosophy is for the few.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.