Kojève's lectures made a deep impression on his listeners - to more various and influential effect than probably any others in France this century

- Perry Anderson,

Kojève's originality and courage, it must be said, is to have perceived the impossibility of going any further, the necessity, consequently, of renouncing the creation of an original philosophy and, thereby, the interminable starting-over which is the avowal of the vanity of thought

- Georges Bataille,

Kojève had a major impact on the intellectual life of the continent. Among his students ranged such future luminaries as Jean-Paul Sartre and Raymond Aron

- Francis Fukuyama,