Quotes from Friedrich von Schlegel

The historian is a prophet in reverse.

The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.