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By means of this Power, I shall therefore, within its sphere, — the World of Sense, — produce and make manifest that which I recognise as my true Being in the Supersensuous World.

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte Outline of the Doctrine of Knowledge (1810)

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Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

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By conscience alone comes truth and reality into my representations.

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