“Philosophy is properly Home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.”

—  Novalis

Philosophie ist eigentlich Heimweh - Trieb überall zu Hause zu sein.
Novalis (1829)
Variant: Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

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German poet and writer 1772–1801

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