Novalis Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

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  Philosophy, Home, Wish

  "Novalis". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

• Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?

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  Philosophy, Bread, Immortality

  As quoted in the essay "Novalis" by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

• Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

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  Philosophy, Home, Desire

• Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

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  Philosophy, Reflection, Delight

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.49, SUNY Press

• The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Understanding

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.54, SUNY Press

• Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

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  Prayer, Philosophy, Thinking

• Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

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  Philosophy, Waking, Kind

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.155, SUNY Press

• When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.

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  Philosophy, Ideas, Self

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.48, SUNY Press

• Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.

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  Philosophy, Heart, Mean

  "Novalis: Fichte Studies". Book by Novalis, edited by Jane Kneller, §556, 2003.

• Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Perfect, Design

  "Novalis: Fichte Studies". Book by Novalis, edited by Jane Kneller, §651, 2003.

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