Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

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.

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

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

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

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?

I think, therefore I am.

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?'

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

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

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable.

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.

Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

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.

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

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

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

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

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

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Metaphysics is a science.