Quote of the Moment: 1st February 2009
Found in the print edition of the newspaper Die Zeit, a mind-boggling quote by German philosopher Novalis (wikipedia):
Wir suchen immer das Unbedingte und finden doch nur Dinge.
A verbatim translation of the quote runs along the lines of:
I’ll go out on a limb and supply another, more construed version, which I actually prefer:
However, as English isn’t my mother tongue, both versions have to be taken with a grain of salt.