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Quotes from Addresses to the German Nation — Johann Gottlieb Fichte

1762–1814 Germany

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If you want to influence him at all, you must do more than merely talk to him ; you must fashion him, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than you wish him to will.

Addresses to the German Nation (1807)

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.

Addresses to the German Nation (1807)

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