"That I should by necessity be either wise and good, or foolish or vicious, without having in one case or the other merit or fault β this it was that filled me with aversion and horror.The determination of my actions by a cause out of myself, whose manifestations were again determined by other causes β this it was from which I so violently revolted.The freedom which was not mine, but that of a foreign power, and, in that, only a conditional, half freedom β this it was with which I could not rest satisfied. I myself β that which in this system only appears as the manifestation of a higher existence, I will be independent, β will be something, not by another or through another, but of myself."
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Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p. 21
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1762 β 1814
deutscher Philosoph
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