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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
The possibility of all philosophy ... namely, that the intelligence, by affecting itself, gives itself a movement in accordance with its own law — that is, gives itself a form of activity all its own.
Philosophy is properly Home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
Attributed Novalis (1829)
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
Attributed Novalis (1829)