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.


II - Theses on the Philosophy of History (1940)

Walter Benjamin Quotes

There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us,...

There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us,...

There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us,...

There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us,...