― Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, published in Illuminations (1973)
Our coming was expected on earth.
“There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.”
― Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, published in Illuminations (1973)
― Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, published in Illuminations (1973)
