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Johann Gottlieb Fichte on Perseverance

1762–1814 Germany

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A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

letter (1791)

Will is the immediate consciousness of the activity of the inward powers of our Nature. The immediate consciousness of an effort, an aspiration of these powers which is not yet activity, because restrained by opposing forces — this is inclination or desire; the struggle of contending forces is irresolution; the victory of one is the resolution of the will.

The Destination of Man (1799)

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