Walter Benjamin Quote

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.


Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing (ed. Schocken, 1986)


Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead...

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead...

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead...

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead...