Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quotes

• What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

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• To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

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• Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.

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• Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity – all but the possibility of improvement.

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• He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

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• God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

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• Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.

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• By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

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• By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here – the Infinite.

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• A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

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Birth:	19th May, 1762
Death:	27th January, 1814
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Philosopher

About

Johann Gottlieb Fichte was born in Rammenau, Saxony, Germany. He was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant. He was also the originator of thesis–antithesis–synthesis, an idea that is often erroneously attributed to Hegel. He also wrote works of political philosophy; he has a reputation as one of the fathers of German nationalism. He studied at the University of Jena and Leipzig University. He wrote several books include: An Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation, Foundations of the Science of Knowledge, Foundations of Natural Right, The Vocation of Man, The Vocation of the Scholar (with Allan G. Bluman), and Addresses to the German Nation.

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