Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quotes
Instinct is blind;-a consciousness without insight. Freedom, as the opposite of Instinct, is thus seeing, and clearly conscious of the grounds of its activity.
Quotes to Explore
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
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Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.
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Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward.
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As a consequence, Americans are more comfortable in India because of human freedom and democracy.
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The Gospel of liberation is bad news to all oppressors because they have defined their "freedom" in terms of slavery of others.
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Instinct is blind;-a consciousness without insight. Freedom, as the opposite of Instinct, is thus seeing, and clearly conscious of the grounds of its activity.
