Johann Gottlieb FichteThinkers

The Absolute is the absolute ego, and it is concealed by the world, not exhibited within it, except as in an image.

Action is prior to knowledge. 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.

Berlin is a city inhabited by a race of men who are so bold that one does not get very far with them by being delicate . One has to talk back to them, and one may even have to become tough, if one wants to hold one's own.

Class's division into a high class (which constitutes humanity's thinking mind) and a low class (which constitutes its executive limbs) is the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests.

Death is always birth in nature. There is no dying principle in nature, only nature presenting itself ever more brightly and more like to itself.

Genius is the effort an idea makes to get a definitive form.

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

God is the moral order of the universe.

Nationalism is a religion in the sense that it granted eternal life to its followers.

Nature is an entity whereby death is always and inescapably birth. There is no dying principle in nature, only nature presenting itself ever more brightly and more like to itself.

Practical reason is the root of all reason... as such, we do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act.