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:

We always search the unconditional and still find only things

I’ll go out on a limb and supply another, more construed version, which I actually prefer:

We always search for the unconditional, yet ever only find its entities

However, as English isn’t my mother tongue, both versions have to be taken with a grain of salt.

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