Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes that we are free.

Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts that reciprocally imply each other. Fichte thinks they are the same thought.

That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.

People are often most proud of precisely those things of which they should most be ashamed.

In general, those who defend capitalism are basically out of touch with reality.

Fichte is concerned with freedom as non-domination.

It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his name and his legacy in early modern philosophy. But Fichte does reject this tradition, by suggesting that an immaterial thinking substance is an incoherent notion, and a rational being whose rationality was not developed through communication with others is a transcendental impossibility.