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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

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

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

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

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