Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.
There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. - Walter Benjamin
There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
- Walter Benjamin
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. - Walter Benjamin
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. - Walter Benjamin
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
History breaks down into images, not into stories. - Walter Benjamin
History breaks down into images, not into stories.
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place wher… - Walter Benjamin
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place wher…
We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector. - Walter Benjamin
We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. - Walter Benjamin
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future. - Walter Benjamin
Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.
The work of memory collapses time. - Walter Benjamin
The work of memory collapses time.
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