There is a secret agreement between past generations and th… - Walter Benjamin

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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

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About Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish literary critic and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and the Jewish mysticism of Gershom Scholem.

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Pen Names: Benedix Schönflies • Detlev Holz

Alternative Names: Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin

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Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

Im Kapitalismus ist eine Religion zu erblicken, d.h. der Kapitalismus dient essentiell der Befriedigung derselben Sorgen, Qualen, Unruhen, auf die ehemals die so genannten Religionen Antwort gaben.

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