Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quotes

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
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.
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.
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.
God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
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.
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.
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.
What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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Philosopher
BirthDate
19 May, 1762
DeathDate
27 January, 1814
Country
Germany
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