Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Quote of Johann Gottlieb Fichte - Who am I? Subject and object...

Biography - Johann Gottlieb Fichte:

German philosopher.
Born: 1762 - Died: 1814
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Germany

Who am I? Subject and object in one — contemplating and contemplated, thinking and thought of. As both must I have become what I am.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi /

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Henri Bergson /

I think, therefore I am.

René Descartes - Discourse on the Method /

For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

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Great thoughts come from the heart.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding /

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard /

Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - De oratore /

The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

Lucidity adds beauty to profound thoughts.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

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Quotes for "to be" or about being:

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

Niccolo Machiavelli /

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Become who you are!

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

I think, therefore I am.

René Descartes - Discourse on the Method /

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Quotes for: contemplation

Beauty is no quality in things themselves : It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

David Hume - Of the Standard of Taste /

Good is not something to contemplate; it is something to be done.

André Comte-Sponville - A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues /

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

The first philosophers were astronomers. The heavens remind man … that he is destined not merely to act, but also to contemplate.

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte also said...

The kind of philosophy one chooses thus depends on the kind of person one is.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte /

Do not be deceived by sophists and half philosophers; things do not appear to thee by means of any representatives. Of the thing that exists, and that can exist, thou art conscious immediately ; thou, thyself, art that of which thou art conscious. By a fundamental law of thy being thou art thus presented to thyself, and thrown out of thyself.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Reason does not exist for the sake of life, but life for the sake of reason. An existence which does not of itself satisfy reason and solve all her doubts, cannot be the true one.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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

Of what I am, I know no more than that I am, but here no tie is necessary between subject and object. My own being is this tie, I am at once the subject knowing, and the object known of; and this reflection or return of the knowledge on itself is what I designate by the term I, if I have any determinate meaning.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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

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