Idealism
Idealism holds that reality is fundamentally mental or spiritual. Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer made it the dominant thread of 19th-century European philosophy.
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"To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them."
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosophy
Idealism
1770–1831
"To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them."
92 quotes
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy
Idealism
1788–1860
"...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is—nothing."
157 quotes
🇩🇪Friedrich Hölderlin
Philosophy
Idealism
1770–1843
"Wer das Tiefste gedacht, liebt das Lebendigste."
17 quotes
🇩🇪Walter Benjamin
Literature
Idealism
1892–1940
"History breaks down in images not into stories."
46 quotes
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Politics
Idealism
1928–2017
"For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia."
36 quotes
🇫🇷Romain Rolland
Literature
Idealism
1866–1944
"What I especially love in Lefebvre, is this intimate alliance—which for me makes the true man—of pessimism of the intelligence, which penetrates every illusion, and optimism of the will."
23 quotes
🇬🇧T. H. Green
Philosophy
Idealism
1836–1882
"Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation"
5 quotes
🇫🇷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."
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🇺🇸Allen W. Wood
Philosophy
Idealism
b. 1942
"It is far from self-evident why Kant chooses this triad as his vehicle for systematizing the formulas of the moral principle."
13 quotes
🇺🇸Ralph Barton Perry
Philosophy
Idealism
1876–1957
"We are taught by biology to believe that the organism carries no passengers, but only members of the crew, each with an allotted part in keeping the ship afloat and bringing it to port."
15 quotes
🇺🇸Josiah Royce
Philosophy
Idealism
1855–1916
"Error is not a mere accident of an untrained intellect, but a necessary stage or feature or moment of the expression of the truth."
1 quotes
Notable Quotes
"In the “fulfillment” of both the laws and duty, … the moral disposition ceases to be the universal, opposed to inclination, and inclination ceases to be particular, opposed to the law."
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, b. 1770View →
"...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is—nothing."
— Arthur Schopenhauer, b. 1788View →
"Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings."
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, b. 1770View →
"This final aim is God's purpose with the world; but God is the absolutely perfect Being, and can, therefore, will nothing but himself."
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, b. 1770View →
"In the “fulfillment” of both the laws and duty, ... the moral disposition ceases to be the universal, opposed to inclination, and inclination ceases to be particular, opposed to the law."
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, b. 1770View →