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 master's master, the genius of the age.
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How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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