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

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

About Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Portrait of Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (; German: [ˈjoːhan ˈɡɔtliːp ˈfɪçtə]; 19 May 1762 – 29 January 1814) was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant. Recently, philosophers and scholars have begun to...