Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein. - Walter Benjamin

In the fields with which we are concerned knowledge exists only in lightning flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterwards.

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.

The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.