Frasi di Johann Gottlieb Fichte (146 frasi, pagina 3)

da Discorsi alla nazione tedesca, IX discorso; citato in William Boyd, Storia dell'educazione occidentale, traduzione di Trieste Valdi, Armando Armando Editore, 1966

“Il fine supremo ed ultimo della società è la completa unità e l'intimo consentimento di tutti i suoi membri.”

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

dalle Lezioni sulla missione del dotto, 1794

“In questo mio Io sensibile c'è […] una quantità di modificazioni che non sono da ricondurre a quelle forme immodificabili del mio Io puro; modificazioni sulle quali l'immutabile legge morale non stabilisce nulla e la cui determinazione quindi dipende dal mio arbitrio, che è esso stesso mutevole.”

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

da Lo Stato di tutto il popolo, a cura di Nicolao Merker, Roma 1978

“La scelta di una filosofia dipende da quel che si è come uomo, perché un sistema filosofico non è un inerte suppellettile, che si possa prendere o lasciare a piacere, ma è animato dallo spirito dell'uomo che l'ha.”

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

dalla Prima introduzione alla dottrina della scienza, 1797

“L'Io puro oppone nell'Io ad un io divisibile un non-io divisibile.”

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

dalla Dottrina della scienza, 1794

“L'umanità respinge il cieco caso e il potere del destino. Essa ha in mano il proprio destino.”

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

citato in Roger Garaudy, Karl Marx

“L'uomo può ciò che egli deve; e se dice: "Io non posso", segno è che non vuole.”

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

da Contributo per rettificare i giudizi del pubblico sulla Rivoluzione francese, 1793

“Noi agiamo perché conosciamo, ma conosciamo perché siamo destinati ad agire; la ragion pratica è la radice di ogni ragione.”

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

da La missione degli uomini, 1800

“L'uomo dunque […] ha la missione di vivere per la società; e perciò, tra quelle abilità che egli deve perfezionare in sé stesso […], dovrà annoverarsi anche la socievolezza.”

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

II; 1943, p. 109
La missione del dotto

“Levo il mio capo ben alto sopra le rupi minacciose, e sopra le furiose cascate, e sopra le nubi che ruotano, lacerate dai tuoni fragorosi, in un mare di fuoco: e posso dire: Sono eterno, e sfido la vostra potenza! Piombate voi tutte, o potenze della natura, sopra di me; tu, o Terra, e tu, o Cielo, confondetevi nel caos primordiale; e voi, o Elementi tutti, schiumeggiate ed infuriate e triturate con selvaggia ostilità fin la più piccola particella di quel corpo che io chiamo mio: la mia volontà sola, col suo piano immutabile, si librerà con fredda tenacia sulle macerie dell'universo. Giacché io ho accettata la mia missione, ed essa, o potenze naturali tutte, è più duratura di voi; essa è eterna, ed io sono eterno, come essa è.”

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

III; 1943, p. 141
La missione del dotto

Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Frasi in inglese

“The State may either attempt to change the opinions of its citizens for its own advantage; —and in this case, it partly undertakes a thing which it cannot accomplish, and partly shows that its laws are not adapted to the existing condition of the nation to which this system of opinion belongs; or, that the governing power is inadequate, and, being unable to trust to its own resources, needs the aid of a foreign power which can never be thoroughly incorporated with it. Or, the State may attempt, perhaps with the purest intentions, and from the warmest zeal on the part of its administrators for promoting the dominion of Reason, it may attempt to combat the prevailing opinions by means of external power;-and in this case it undertakes a thing in which it can never succeed, for all men feel that it then takes the form of injustice, and the persecuted opinion being thus to a certain extent established in its right, gains new friends by the injustice which it suffers, and by this conviction of the justice of its cause acquires a stronger power of opposition; and the matter ends by the State being obliged to yield, whereby it once more only shows its weakness.”

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Origine: The Characteristics of the Present Age (1806), p. 83

“We arrived at five great Epochs of the Earthly Life of the Human Race, which are the only possible Epochs thereof, and thoroughly exhaust the whole of this Life:–First, That in which human affairs are governed by Reason as Instinct without violence or constraint. Second, That in which this Instinct has become weaker, and now only manifests itself in a few chosen Individuals, and thereby becomes an External Ruling Authority in reference to all the rest. Third, That in which this Authority is thrown off; and, with it, Reason in every shape which it has yet assumed. Fourth, That in which Reason in the shape of Science appears among men. Fifth, That in which Art associates itself with this Science, in order to mold Human Life with a firmer and surer hand into harmony with Science, and in which the ordering of all the relations of Man according to Reason is, by means of this Art, freely accomplished, the object of the Earthly Life attained, and our Race enters upon the higher spheres of Eternity.”

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Origine: The Characteristics of the Present Age (1806), p. 64

“The fundamental maxim of those who stand at the head of this Age, and therefore the principle of the Age, is this,—to accept nothing as really existing or obligatory, but that which they can understand and clearly comprehend.”

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte

With regard to this fundamental principle, as we have now declared and adopted it without farther definition or limitation, this third Age is precisely similar to that which is to follow it, the fourth, or age of Reason as Science,—and by virtue of this similarity prepares the way for it. Before the tribunal of Science, too, nothing is accepted but the Conceivable. Only in the application of the principle there is this difference between the two Ages,—that the third, which we shall shortly name that of Empty Freedom, makes its fixed and previously acquired conceptions the measure of existence; while the fourth—that of Science—on the contrary, makes existence the measure, not of its acquired, but of its desiderated beliefs.
Origine: The Characteristics of the Present Age (1806), p. 19

“The determination to print them (his lectures), and to communicate them to the General Public, must also speak for itself; and should it not do so, any other recommendation of them would be thrown away. Thus, with respect to the appearance of this work, I have nothing further to say to the Public, than that I have nothing to say.”

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Preface
The Characteristics of the Present Age (1806)

“All life, Omnipotent Father, is thy life! and the eye of religion alone penetrates to the realms of truth and beauty. I am related to thee, and what I behold around me is related to me; all is full of animation, and looks towards me with bright spiritual eyes, and speaks with spirit voices to my heart.”

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte libro The Vocation of Man

Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p.125
The Vocation of Man (1800), Faith

“Should it seem to me that truth has been put to silence, and virtue trampled under foot, and that folly and vice will certainly triumph; should it happen, when all hearts were filled with hope for the human race, that the horizon should suddenly darken around them as it had never done before; should the work, well and happily begun, on which all eyes were fixed with joyous expectation, suddenly and unexpectedly be turned into a deed of shame, — yet will I not be dismayed; nor if the good cause should appear to grow and flourish, the lights of freedom and civilization be diffused, and peace and good-will amongst men be extended, shall yet my efforts be relaxed.”

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte libro The Vocation of Man

Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p.123
The Vocation of Man (1800), Faith