Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.

'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.'

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events: its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself...

I think, therefore I am.

The two basic topics which fascinate me are 'What is reality?' and 'What constitutes the authentic human being?'

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is.

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.