There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows wha

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the masters master, the genius of the age. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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