Quote by Walter Benjamin
"Thought is not a transparent medium but a struggle with language, tradition, and inherited concepts."
"Thought is not a transparent medium but a struggle with language, tradition, and inherited concepts."
"There is no document that is not a document of barbarism."
"The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."
"Articulating the past historically does not mean knowing it 'the way it really was.'"
"A Klee painting named 'Angelus Novus' shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating."