...we dream that we dream. — " The true philosophical Act is annihilation of self (Selbsttodtung) ; this is the real beginning of all Philosophy ; all...is the higher Sense of our Planet; the star which c6nnocts it with the upper world; the eye which it turns towards Heaven. — " Life is a disease of...

...first rejected them may have aided him in his subsequent acceptance; since, as Novalis has told us, "To become properly acquainted with a truth we must first have disbelieved it and argued against it." In one of his lesser poems, called The Victim, Tennyson has finely shown how difficult...

...Coleridge. To be young1 is to be as one of the immortals. To bear is to conquer our fate. CamffaH. To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it and disputed against ¡t. Xovalis. To beguile the time, / Look like the time : bear welcome in your eye, / Your hand, ÊDur...

...LEANDER EDMUND WHTPPLE, Corresponding Secretary. The true philosophical act is the annihilation of self; this is the real beginning of all philosophy; all...requisites for being a disciple of philosophy point hither. — NoYaJis. The authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews in the New Testament has been always a subject...

...told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake (1757-1827) English poet, artist To become properly acquainted with a truth we must...first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) Prussian statesman The terrible thing about the quest for truth...

...philosophical Act is annihilation of self (Selbsttodtung); this is the real beginning of all Philosophy. . . . This Act alone corresponds to all the conditions and characteristics of transcendental conduct" ("Novalis" [1829], Essays 2:39). In Sartor, Carlyle described "Annihilation of Self" as "the first...

...wonderful observations as (in Carlyle's fine translations from his 1829 essay of the young German poet): To become properly acquainted with a truth we must...first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it... Philosophy is properly Home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home . . . The division of Philosopher...

...true philosophical act is annihilation of self; this is the real beginning of all Philosophy. . . . This act alone corresponds to all the conditions and characteristics of transcendental conduct."51 Emerson likewise writes in Nature of transcendent exhilaration, of becoming translucent,...