Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelPhilosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel