Famous Quotes / Walter Benjamin
46 Quotations by Walter Benjamin
- 1. All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic an ...
- 2. Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but inform ...
- 3. Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
- 4. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him aw ...
- 5. Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
- 6. Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from de ...
- 7. Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightl ...
- 8. Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
- 9. Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of ...
- 10. Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
- 11. Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
- 12. He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events tha ...
- 13. He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no ...
- 14. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be ...
- 15. It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapabl ...
- 16. Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and proph ...
- 17. Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
- 18. Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experie ...
- 19. Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothin ...
- 20. Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it i ...