• We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.

    Johann Gottlieb Fichte: We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.
    Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1848). “The vocation of man, tr. by W. Smith”, p.131