Famous Quotes / Walter Benjamin
46 Quotations by Walter Benjamin
- 21. Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method ...
- 22. Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method ...
- 23. Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full ...
- 24. Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
- 25. Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up t ...
- 26. Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his co ...
- 27. Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has ...
- 28. Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
- 29. Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
- 30. Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life ...
- 31. The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope ...
- 32. The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
- 33. The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inad ...
- 34. The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
- 35. The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
- 36. The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
- 37. The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is ...
- 38. The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction betw ...
- 39. The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
- 40. The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.