"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."
― Walter Benjamin
Topic(s):
Experience
More From Walter Benjamin
- "It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed."
- "Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."
- "The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out."
More In Experience
- "Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are."― Pam Grier
- "If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can’t ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects."― Thabo Mbeki
- "I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions."― Muqtada al Sadr