"By rigorously establishing the limits of that which can be known in what is said, logic takes up this silent Voice and transforms it into the negative foundation of all knowledge. On the other hand, ethics experiences it as that which must necessarily remain unsaid in what is said. In both cases, however, the final foundation remains rigorously informulable."
"To think the Absolute signifies, thus, to think that which, through a process of 'absolution,' has been led back to its own-most property, to itself, to its own solitude, as to its own custom. For this reason, the Absolute always implies a voyage, an abandonment of the originary place, an alienation and a being-out-side. If the Absolute is the supreme idea of philosophy, then philosophy is truly, in the words of Novalis, nostalgia; that is, the 'desire to be at home everywhere', to recognize oneself in being-other. Philosophy is not initially at home, it is not originally in possession of itself, and thus it must return to itself."
Stunning! This is so so brilliant.. so elemental, yet so difficult to put together.
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