Quote by REINHART KOSELLECK - Deepstash
REINHART KOSELLECK

History is neither a tribunal nor an alibi.

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Absurdity having become event, it should not also receive some kind of absolution via attributions of meaning after the fact.

REINHART KOSELLECK

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