If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.
More Quotes from Johann Gottlieb Fichte:
By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.Johann Gottlieb Fichte
God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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