Here 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 Fichte More Quotes by Johann Gottlieb Fichte More Quotes From 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 cutting humanity loss I am satisfied with, and stand firm as a rock on the belief that all that happens in God's world is for the best, but what is merely germ, what blossom and what fruit I do not know. Johann Gottlieb Fichte fruit rocks world Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for indolent contemplation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of piety,--no, for action was existence given thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth. Johann Gottlieb Fichte voice emotion soul 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 graves form moments As to those in whom the will of God is not inwardly accomplished,-because there is no inward life in them, for they are altogether outward,-upon them the will of God is wrought as alone it can be; appearing at first sight bitter and ungracious, though in reality merciful and loving in the highest degree. To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last. Johann Gottlieb Fichte pain mean reality 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 bliss infinite men This Being out of God cannot, by any means, be a limited, completed, and inert Being, since God himself is not such a dead Being, but, on the contrary, is Life; but it can only be a Power, since only a Power is the true formal picture or Schema of Life. And indeed it can only be the Power of realising that which is contained in itself a Schema. Johann Gottlieb Fichte schemas formal mean God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life. Johann Gottlieb Fichte mere utterance given Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me. Johann Gottlieb Fichte only understand me man
