"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"
This quote is written / told by Walter Benjamin between July 15, 1892 and September 27, 1940. He/she was a famous Critic from Germany.
The author also have 29 other quotes.
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"