Addresses to the German Nation

order with reality, from not-speaking would follow not-seeing, and from not-seeing would follow non-being original: "Nichtseyn." This refers to a state of non-existence or ontological void..
So the sleepwalker Nachtwandler Literally "night-wanderer." Fichte uses this image to describe a person acting in a dream-like state of ignorance, unaware of the political and social abyss surrounding them. strides along at the edge of the abyss; out of mercy Barmherzigkeit, do not call out to him, for right now his state keeps him safe, but if he wakes, he will fall headlong. If only the dreams of those people also carried with them the gift, the privileges, and the security of sleepwalking, so that there might be a means to save them without calling out to them and waking them.

So it is said that the ostrich closes its eyes before the hunter who approaches him, just as if the danger, being no longer visible to him, were no longer there at all. He would be no enemy of the ostrich who called out: open your eyes, see, there comes the hunter, look toward that side, so that you may escape him.