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.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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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.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Freedom