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.
Johann Gottlieb FichteA man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
Johann Gottlieb FichteHere below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.
Johann Gottlieb FichteBy 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