“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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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.