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“The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty.”

Book:Addresses to the German nation

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Addresses to the German nation

This book compiles a series of addresses and essays that delve into the cultural and political landscape of Germany. The content ranges from discussions on national identity to analyses of societal issues, offering insights into the historical and contemporary context of the German nation. more

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher who is considered one of the founders of German classical philosophy. His ideas have had a profound impact on German philosophy and the entire Western philosophical tradition. He was born in May 1762 and died on January 27, 1814. more

“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.”

Mean Contrary Realising Formal Schemas

Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“Only through blind Instinct, in which the only possible guidance of the Imperative is awanting, does the Power in Intuition remain undetermined; where it is schematised as absolute it becomes infinite; and where it is presented in a determinate form, as a principle, it becomes at least manifold. By the above-mentioned act of Intelligising, the Power liberates itself from Instinct, to direct itself towards Unity.”

Doe Form Principles Direct Absolutes Infinite Blind Unity Instinct Intuition Guidance Imperatives Manifold

Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.”

Ifs Messages

Author:John Gielgud

“What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and in the country.”

Country Language Force Streets Greece Impressive Dictionary

Author:Peter Levi

“Röntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensions comparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of which the material universe is built up; and there is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.”

Reason Order Universe Materials Limits Built Distance Wave Extremes Dimensions No Reason Atoms Smallest Vibrations Frequency

Author:Wilhelm Rontgen

“Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.”

Sleep Cousin Skeletons

Author:Thomas Traherne

“Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his heart and the height of his condition, his mighty confidence and contempt of danger, his true security and repose in himself, his liberty to dare and do what he pleaseth, his alacrity in the midst of fears, his invincible temper, are advantages which make him master of fortune.”

“The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.”

Should Immortal Everlasting Corn Wheat

Author:Thomas Traherne

“By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us.”

World May Christian Heaven Nations Water Drink Angel Roots Naked Comparison Adam Savages Rude Drink Water

Book:Centuries of Meditations

Source: Centuries of Meditations

“Why is this soe long detaind in a dark manuscript, that if printed would be a Light to the World, & a Universal Blessing?”

Ifs World Long Light Would Be Dark Blessing Universal Printed Manuscripts

Book:The Works of Thomas Traherne: Inducements to retirednes ; A sober view of Dr Twisses, his considerations ; Seeds of eternity, or, The nature of the soul ; The kingdom of God

Source: The Works of Thomas Traherne: Inducements to retirednes ; A sober view of Dr Twisses, his considerations ; Seeds of eternity, or, The nature of the soul ; The kingdom of God

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