"Es giebt keine Selbstkenntniss als die historische. Niemand weiss was er ist, wer nicht weiss was seine Genossen sind."
— Friedrich Schlegel

January 1, 1970

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There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn’t know what his contemporaries are. — “Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 139