Walter Benjamin Quotes on Time
Walter Benjamin was an early 20th-century German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist, whose work has become one of the most studied bodies of writing in the history of cultural criticism. This page collects quotes attributed to Walter Benjamin on the topic of time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Walter Benjamin:
“There is no document of civilisation which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”
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Attributed to Walter Benjamin:
“History is the subject of a structure whose site is not homogeneous, empty time, but time filled by the presence of the now.”
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Attributed to Walter Benjamin:
“It is more arduous to honour the memory of the nameless than that of the renowned.”
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Attributed to Walter Benjamin:
“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theatre.”