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Walter Benjamin quotes: Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
Walter Benjamin quotes: The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
Walter Benjamin quotes: Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption. Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption.
Walter Benjamin quotes: In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled. In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Walter Benjamin quotes: The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed. The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
Walter Benjamin quotes: The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth. The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.
Walter Benjamin quotes: The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
Walter Benjamin quotes: To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary. To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Walter Benjamin quotes: What figure does the man of letters cut in a country where his employer is the proletariat ? What figure does the man of letters cut in a country where his employer is the proletariat ?
Walter Benjamin quotes: Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Only for the sake of the hopeless have we been given hope. Only for the sake of the hopeless have we been given hope.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.
Walter Benjamin quotes: It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us. It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
Walter Benjamin quotes: How immensely the world is simplified when tested for its worthiness of destruction. This is the great bond embracing and unifying all that exists. How immensely the world is simplified when tested for its worthiness of destruction. This is the great bond embracing and unifying all that exists.
Walter Benjamin quotes: A real translation is transparent. A real translation is transparent.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness. Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.
Walter Benjamin quotes: The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death. The experience of our generation:
that capitalism will not die a natural death.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things. Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.
Walter Benjamin quotes: To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize "how it really was." It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger. To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize "how it really was." It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Languages are not strangers to on another. Languages are not strangers to on another.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism
Walter Benjamin quotes: To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin quotes: What has been forgotten ... is never something purely individual. What has been forgotten ... is never something purely individual.
Walter Benjamin quotes: In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth. In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Clearly, this is at bottom the same ancient lament that the masses seek distraction whereas art demands concentration from the spectator. Clearly, this is at bottom the same ancient lament that the masses seek distraction whereas art demands concentration from the spectator.
Walter Benjamin quotes: The work of memory collapses time. The work of memory collapses time.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the ... Press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the ...
Walter Benjamin quotes: Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well. Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.
Walter Benjamin quotes: The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
Walter Benjamin quotes: He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge. Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.
Walter Benjamin quotes: All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness
Walter Benjamin quotes: Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928]. Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].
Walter Benjamin quotes: I came into the world under the sign of Saturn the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays. I came into the world under the sign of Saturn
the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.
Walter Benjamin quotes: To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves. To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order. Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.
Walter Benjamin quotes: The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
Walter Benjamin quotes: How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
Walter Benjamin quotes: Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed. Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.
Walter Benjamin quotes: The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself. The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.
Walter Benjamin quotes: It is only for those without hope that hope is given. It is only for those without hope that hope is given.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens. Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Walter Benjamin quotes: For every second of time was the strait gate through which the Messiah might enter. For every second of time was the strait gate through which the Messiah might enter.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future. Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.
Walter Benjamin quotes: The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation. The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.
Walter Benjamin quotes: All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.
Walter Benjamin quotes: As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth. As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Every passion borders on chaos, that of the collector on the chaos of memory. Every passion borders on chaos, that of the collector on the chaos of memory.
Walter Benjamin quotes: No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas.
Walter Benjamin quotes: All disgust is originally disgust at touching. All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
Walter Benjamin quotes: For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors. For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.
Walter Benjamin quotes: I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain. I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Walter Benjamin quotes: What, in the end, makes advertisements superior to criticism? Not what the moving red neon says - but the fiery pool reflecting it in the asphalt. What, in the end, makes advertisements superior to criticism? Not what the moving red neon says - but the fiery pool reflecting it in the asphalt.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
Walter Benjamin quotes: The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin quotes: The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Do not write the conclusion of a work in your familiar study. You would not find the necessary courage there. Do not write the conclusion of a work in your familiar study. You would not find the necessary courage there.
Walter Benjamin quotes: As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend. As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.
Walter Benjamin quotes: To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives. To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.
Walter Benjamin quotes: The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man. The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Literature tells very little to those who understand it. Literature tells very little to those who understand it.
Walter Benjamin quotes: What draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his shivering life with a death he reads about What draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his shivering life with a death he reads about
Walter Benjamin quotes: There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation. There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
Walter Benjamin quotes: We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector. We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.
Walter Benjamin quotes: In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers. In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
Walter Benjamin quotes: The gaze of nature thus awakened dreams and pulls the poet after it. The gaze of nature thus awakened dreams and pulls the poet after it.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.
Walter Benjamin quotes: To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return. To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably. Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation. Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.
Walter Benjamin quotes: All the decisive blows are struck left-handed. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
Walter Benjamin quotes: The distracted person, too, can form habits. The distracted person, too, can form habits.
Walter Benjamin quotes: You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits. You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them. Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.
Walter Benjamin quotes: No more semblance or disemblance, no more God or Man, only an immanent logic of the principle of operativity. No more semblance or disemblance, no more God or Man, only an immanent logic of the principle of operativity.
Walter Benjamin quotes: The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
Walter Benjamin quotes: In times of terror, when everyone is something of a conspirator, everyone will be in a situation where he has to play detective. In times of terror, when everyone is something of a conspirator, everyone will be in a situation where he has to play detective.
Walter Benjamin quotes: You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses. You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.
Walter Benjamin quotes: Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man. Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man.
Walter Benjamin quotes: History is written by the victors. History is written by the victors.
Walter Benjamin quotes: How different everything would have been if they had been victorious in life who have won victory in death. How different everything would have been if they had been victorious in life who have won victory in death.
Walter Benjamin quotes: The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Walter Benjamin quotes: In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward. In the fields with which we are concerned,
knowledge comes only in flashes. The text
is the thunder rolling long afterward.
Walter Benjamin quotes: History breaks down into images, not into stories. History breaks down into images, not into stories.
Walter Benjamin quotes: History is made up of fragments and absences. What is left out is as significant as what is included. History is made up of fragments and absences. What is left out is as significant as what is included.
Walter Benjamin quotes: There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism. There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

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