The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [Entwerfende] part, the latter the executive part.


The System of Ethics According to the Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre (1798; Cambridge, 2005), p. 320.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Quotes

The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying...

The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying...

The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying...

The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying...