Quotes from 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 form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.

My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.

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.

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

I am satisfied with, and stand firm as a rock on the belief that all that happens in God's world is for the best, but what is merely germ, what blossom and what fruit I do not know.

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Alle Kraft der Menschen wird erworben durch Kampf mit sich selbst und Ãœberwindung seiner selbst.

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

In nearly all the nations of Europe, a powerful, hostile government is growing, and is at war with all the others, and sometimes oppresses the people in dreadful ways: It is Jewry

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 that widely extended field which we are called to cultivate! Let us rejoice that power is given to us, and that our task is infinite!

La clase de filosofía que se elige depende de la clase de hombre que se es.

He who has no means of subsistence, has no duty to acknowledge or respect other people's property, considering that the principles of the social convenant have been violated to his prejudice.

Education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.

It is his incurable illness to regard the accidental as necessary.

So lange ihr in euren Schulen mit Leuten vom Handwerke nach der vorgeschriebenen Form darüber redet , täuscht euch beide eben diese vorgeschriebene Form , und wenn ihr nur über sie einig seyd , schenkt ihr euch gegenseitig manche Frage, deren deutliche Beantwortung euch beschwerlich fallen dürfte.

Mit einem Worte: durch die Wissenschaftslehre kommt der Geist des Menschen zu sich selbst, und ruht von nun an auf sich selbst, ohne fremde Hülfe, und wird seiner selbst durchaus mächtig, wie der Tänzer seiner Füße, oder der Fechter seiner Hände.

Nur mit Johannes kann der Philosoph zusammenkommen, denn dieser allein hat Achtung für die Vernunft, und beruft sich auf den Beweis, den der Philosoph allein gelten lässt: den inneren.

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