Walter Benjamin Quotes About Past

• Quien pretende acercarse a su propio pasado enterrado debe comportarse como un hombre que excava... Esto le confiere el tono y el porte de las auténticas reminiscencias. No debe temer volver una y otra vez sobre el mismo asunto; esparcirlo como se esparce la tierra, revolverlo como se revuelve el suelo.

  Walter Benjamin

  Real, Pasado, Hombres

  "Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings".

• La verdadera imagen del pasado pasa fugazmente. El pasado sólo puede captarse como una imagen que aparece en el instante en que puede reconocerse y nunca más vuelve a verse.

  Walter Benjamin

  Time, Past, Flash

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistably propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. The storm is what we call progress.

  Walter Benjamin

  Angel, Past, Wings

  "Theses on the Philosophy of History". Book by Walter Benjamin, 1955.

• El lenguaje ha dejado bien claro que la memoria no es un instrumento para explorar el pasado, sino su teatro. Es el soporte de la experiencia pasada, igual que la tierra es el soporte en el que yacen enterradas las ciudades muertas.

  Walter Benjamin

  Recuerdos, Mentira, Pasado

  "Selected Writings: 1927-1934".

• The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist. Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.

  Walter Benjamin

  Winning, Past, Enemy

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.

  Walter Benjamin

  Past, Views, Abortion

  Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings, Edmund Jephcott (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.60, Harvard University Press

• Toda imagen del pasado que no sea reconocida por el presente como una de las suyas amenaza con desaparecer irremediablemente.

  Walter Benjamin

  Pasado, Desaparecer

• The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.

  Walter Benjamin

  Heart, Past, Mouths

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

  Walter Benjamin

  Beautiful, Block, Past

• To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.

  Walter Benjamin

  Recuerdos, Significado, Pasado

  "On the Concept of History" (1940) See Ranke 1

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