Walter Benjamin on the Allegorist and the Collector
The Secular and The Religious are Not Opposites
“In every collector hides an allegorist, and in every allegorist a collector.”
- Walter Benjamin, Arcades Project
“In every secularist hides a religious believer, and in every religious believer a secularist.”
- Zohar Atkins, Arcades Project
Walter Benjamin has a penchant for aphorisms that are at once insightful and opaque, shimmering in and out of focus.
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