Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel quote: There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows...

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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"Lucinde and the Fragments" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by P. Firchow, (§ 139), 1991.

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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. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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