Gershom Scholem Quote

No one has a right to speak who, in the midst of thinking, hasn't been overcome with the experience of glimpsing the essence of history.


Diary Entry, March 2, 1916, Lamentations of Youth: The Diaries of Gershom Scholem, 1913-1919, p. 109

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No one has a right to speak who, in the midst of thinking, hasn't been overcome with the experience of glimpsing the essence of history.

No one has a right to speak who, in the midst of thinking, hasn't been overcome with the experience of glimpsing the essence of history.

No one has a right to speak who, in the midst of thinking, hasn't been overcome with the experience of glimpsing the essence of history.

No one has a right to speak who, in the midst of thinking, hasn't been overcome with the experience of glimpsing the essence of history.