Philosophy Historian

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy

Idealism

1770–1831

"It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature, that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought...""

🇫🇷Gilles Deleuze

Philosophy

materialism

1925–1995

"One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values."

🇫🇷Étienne Gilson

Philosophy

1884–1978

"As used today, the word realism means in the first place the opposite to idealism when it claims that it is possible to pass from the subject to the object."

🇫🇷Victor Cousin

Philosophy

Idealism

1792–1867

"Victor Cousin believed that “We are constrained to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy."

Diogenes Laërtius

Philosophy

"The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friends; and the answer he gave was, "As we should wish our friends to behave to us."