When it has happened that my hearers
have not understood me, and for that reason have not been
convinced, I have then had no but submission;
for there are no outward logical means of compelling under-
standing, since understanding and conviction arise only from
the inmost depths of Life and its Love;--but to submit
beforehand to this want of understanding, and to reckon
upon it, even during instruction, as upon a necessary result,
--this I cannot do, and have never done, either at any pre-
vious time or in these lectures.
have not understood me, and for that reason have not been
convinced, I have then had no but submission;
for there are no outward logical means of compelling under-
standing, since understanding and conviction arise only from
the inmost depths of Life and its Love;--but to submit
beforehand to this want of understanding, and to reckon
upon it, even during instruction, as upon a necessary result,
--this I cannot do, and have never done, either at any pre-
vious time or in these lectures.
Fichte - Nature of the Scholar
