Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quotes on Freedom
Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher and one of the founding figures of German Idealism. This page collects quotes attributed to Johann Gottlieb Fichte on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Johann Gottlieb Fichte:
“I am free; I cannot do other than be free.”
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Attributed to Johann Gottlieb Fichte:
“To act, then, to act, that is what we are here for.”
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Attributed to Johann Gottlieb Fichte:
“Be free, and see free people around you.”
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“The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty.”
Addresses to the German Nation (1807), Second Address : "The General Nature of the New Education". Chicago and London, The Open Court Publishing Company, 1922, p. 20.