Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quotes

#1. He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#3. 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.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#4. 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 Fichte

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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#6. 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.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#7. The aim of all government is to make all government superfluous.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#8. Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#9. I am a very good housekeeper. which I have no reluctance in doing, because I really think it is my peculiar excellence, and for this reason, I always take care to provide such things as please my own appetite, which I consider as the chief merit in housekeeping.

Jane Austen

#10. 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 Fichte

#11. The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#12. There is nothing interesting about just seeing me doing the show then seeing the fans and how much people love me.

David Cross

#13. The secret of happiness is to enjoy the moment, without allowing unhappy memories or fear of the future to shadow the shining present.

Elizabeth Peters

#14. Would he find her?
Without question.
Would he save her?
Always.

Lauren Kate

#15. 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 Fichte

#16. 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 Fichte

#17. The laws that stopped blacks from voting were the worst, because they prevented blacks from voting someone into parliament who could change the other laws. Even though the blacks were the majority of the population, they were still not getting a say.

Nelson Mandela

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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#20. We do not act because we know, but we know because we are destined for action; practical reason is the root of all reason.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#22. Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#24. 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 Fichte

#25. 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.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#26. [T]he human being (and so all finite beings generally) becomes human only among others. Self and other stand in a relation of potential reciprocity.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#27. Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe or city, then spread to the much larger unit of the nation, and finally from the nation to mankind as a whole.

Corliss Lamont

#28. Lying isn't going to make you into a hero.

Rae Carson