There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. (Friedrich Schlegel)

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

Friedrich Schlegel

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