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It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'

Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.