Quote by Novalis

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

Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhe

Summary

This quote suggests that philosophy is the longing to belong and feel comfortable everywhere, regardless of one's physical location. It implies that philosophers possess a deep yearning to understand and connect with the world on a fundamental level. They seek to cultivate a sense of spiritual and intellectual home in the universe itself, seeking wisdom and knowledge beyond the confines of their immediate surroundings. This quote captures the essence of philosophy as a pursuit driven by the desire for a profound and universal sense of belonging.

Topics

Home

By Novalis

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requir

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Speeches (oratory)

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out o

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

Imagination

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. T

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

Morning

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Kindness

Men become much more attractive when they start looking olde

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferri

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

Science

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

Douglas Trumbull

Technology

People don't live in New Orleans because it is easy. They li

People don't live in New Orleans because it is easy. They live here because they are incapable of living anywhere else in the just same way.

Truth Cities New Orleans Hurricane Katrina

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good th

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good Home

But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.

But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.

Cool

Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method i

Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.

Legacy

You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you

You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.

Football