JOHANN GOTTLIEB
FICHTE AND GOD
"By the renunciation of the
earthly, does faith in the Eternal first arise in our soul, and is there enshrined apart,
as the only support to which we can cling after we have given up all else,--as the only
animating principle that can elevate our minds and inspire our lives."
(Fichte, 1965, 145)
"Only
through the common fountain of our spiritual being do we know of each other; only in Him
do we recognize each other, and influence each other."
(Ibid, 156)
"The Eternal Will is thus assuredly the
Creator of the World, in the only way in which He can be so, and in the only way in which
it needs creation: in the finite reason."
(Ibid, 157)
"By the renunciation of the
earthly, does faith in the Eternal first arise in our soul, and is there enshrined apart,
as the only support to which we can cling after we have given up all else,--as the only
animating principle that can elevate our minds and inspire our lives."
(Fichte, 1965, 145)
"Only
through the common fountain of our spiritual being do we know of each other; only in Him
do we recognize each other, and influence each other."
(Ibid, 156)
"The Eternal Will is thus assuredly the
Creator of the World, in the only way in which He can be so, and in the only way in which
it needs creation: in the finite reason."
(Ibid, 157)
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Fichte, J. G.
The Vocations of Man, La Salle Illinois, The Open Court Publishing
Co., 1965.
