For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.
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The primordial experiences that are transmitted through art and history are not to be grasped from the points of view of these forms of consciousness.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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