Fichte’s Greatest Hits
“Nevertheless, the idea of an infinity to be thus completed floats as a vision before us, and is rooted in our innermost nature. We are obliged, as it enjoins us, to resolve the contradiction; though we cannot even think it possible of solution, and foresee that in no moment of an existence prolonged to all eternity will we ever be able to consider it possible. But this is just the mark in us that we are destined for eternity” (ENG 238; GER I, 270).
“The ultimate ground of all consciousness is an interaction of the self with itself, by way of a not-self that has to be regarded from different points of view. This is the circle from which the finite spirit cannot escape, and cannot with to escape, unless it is to disown reason and demand its own annihilation” (ENG 248; GER I, 282).
“We do not become aware of our own action, and are necessarily bound to assume that we have received from without what we have in fact ourselves produced by our own forces, and according to our own laws” (ENG 255; GER I, 290).
[Trans. Heath & Lachs, 1970]
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