Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quotes on Mind
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 mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Johann Gottlieb Fichte:
“The kind of philosophy one chooses depends on the kind of man one is.”
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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:
“We do not act because we know; we know because we are called upon to act.”
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“The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [ Entwerfende ] part, the latter the executive part.”
The System of Ethics According to the Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre (1798; Cambridge, 2005), p. 320.