1001Philosophers

Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg Quotes on Knowledge

Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy and the leading Aristotelian critic of Hegelian idealism in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg:

    “Hegel's dialectic conceals an Aristotelian motion that he refused to acknowledge.”

  • Attributed to Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg:

    “Logic must always have its eye on the real, not on its own reflections.”

  • Attributed to Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg:

    “The history of philosophy is the laboratory in which philosophy is tested.”

  • Attributed to Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg:

    “Aristotle remains the master of those who think.”