Max Lerner
American journalist and educator (1902-1992)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
German philosopher (1762-1814)
Johann Gottlieb Fichtewas 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. Recently, philosophers and scholars have begun to appreciate Fichte as an important philosopher in his own right due to his original insights into the nature of self-consciousness or self-awareness.
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Johann Gottlieb Fichtewas 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. Recently, philosophers and scholars have begun to appreciate Fichte as an important philosopher in his own right due to his original insights into the nature of self-consciousness or self-awareness. Fichte was also the originator of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, an idea that is often erroneously attributed to Hegel. Like Descartes and Kant before him, Fichte was motivated by the problem of subjectivity and consciousness. Fichte also wrote works of political philosophy; he has a reputation as one of the fathers of German nationalism.
10 Quotes by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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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.
Johann Gottlieb FichteGerman philosopher (1762-1814)
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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
Johann Gottlieb FichteGerman philosopher (1762-1814)
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What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.
Johann Gottlieb FichteGerman philosopher (1762-1814)
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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.
Johann Gottlieb FichteGerman philosopher (1762-1814)
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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.
Johann Gottlieb FichteGerman philosopher (1762-1814)
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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.
Johann Gottlieb FichteGerman philosopher (1762-1814)
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
Johann Gottlieb FichteGerman philosopher (1762-1814)
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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.
Johann Gottlieb FichteGerman philosopher (1762-1814)
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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.
Johann Gottlieb FichteGerman philosopher (1762-1814)
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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.
Johann Gottlieb FichteGerman philosopher (1762-1814)