Immanuel Hermann Fichte quotes

Immanuel Hermann Fichte quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.”
-- Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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“If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.”
-- Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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“Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth.”
-- Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
“I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.”
“We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.”
“Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes”

Source : "Beastie Boys: 'We can't make new music' and may never play live again" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2014.
“You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of.”

Source : Abbi Glines (2014). “Never Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.234, Simon and Schuster
“The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.”
“Death - by hanging! - that, at least, I did not deserve. The death part - all right, somebody has to stand for the responsibility. But that - that I did not deserve!”

Source : Letter to Dr. G. M. Gilbert. Quoted in "Nuremberg Diary" by G. M. Gilbert, 1995.
“I know that I do deserve good things.”
“No one deserves anything from you. No one deserves your trust or your loveâ€”they have to earn it.”
“Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.”

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