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Top 20 Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quotes (2025 Update)

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished.”

1. “Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished.”

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.”

2. “He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.”

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.”

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

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.”

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

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.”

7. “We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.”

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.”

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

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.”

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

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.”

12. “What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.”

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.”

19. “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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quote: “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!”

23. “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!”

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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