"There are two great classes of men: the……" — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
"There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly leads to action. It is for the latter to see beyond. They are the free artists who create the future and its history, the conscious architects of the world."
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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16 Quotes by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity -…
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A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will…
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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself
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By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will…
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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,…
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Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the…
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The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than…
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To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means…
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What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.
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I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.
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Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in…
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By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is…
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