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

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

- Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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 …

- Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure.

- Johann Gottlieb Fichte

All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying principle in nature, for nature throug…

- Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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 …

- Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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

- Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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

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

- Johann Gottlieb Fichte