Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

It is a mistake to say that it is doubtful whether there is a God or not. It is not in the…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“Act! act!—it is to that end we are here. Should we fret ourselves that others are not so perfect as we are,…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

As to those in whom the will of God is not inwardly accomplished,-because there is no inward life in them, for they…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

This Being out of God cannot, by any means, be a limited, completed, and inert Being, since God himself is not such…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Only through blind Instinct, in which the only possible guidance of the Imperative is awanting, does the Power in Intuition remain undetermined;…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.”

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

I am satisfied with, and stand firm as a rock on the belief that all that happens in God's world is for…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure.

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte