Quote by Walter Benjamin
"The true picture of the past flits by as a flash. Only an image which turns into extinction the moment it is recognized offers itself as the true historical image."
"The true picture of the past flits by as a flash. Only an image which turns into extinction the moment it is recognized offers itself as the true historical image."
"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."