Conception Quote by 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

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“Act! act!—it is to that end we are here. Should we fret ourselves that others are not so perfect as we are, when we ourselves are only somewhat less imperfect than they? Is not this our greatest perfection,—the vocation which has been given to us,—that we must labour for the perfecting of others? Let us rejoice in the prospect of…

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The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [ Entwerfende…

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

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

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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…

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As to those in whom the will of God is not inwardly accomplished,-because there is no inward life in them, for they are altogether outward,-upon them the will of God is wrought as alone it can be; appearing at first sight bitter and ungracious, though in reality merciful and loving in the highest degree. To those who do not love…

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This Being out of God cannot, by any means, be a limited, completed, and inert Being, since God himself is not such a dead Being, but, on the contrary, is Life; but it can only be a Power, since only a Power is the true formal picture or Schema of Life. And indeed it can only be the Power of…

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

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

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