Quotes by Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

German philosopher

Lived from: 1892 - 1940

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagGermany

Born: 15 july 1892 Died: 26 september 1940

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  • Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
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  • Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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  • 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.
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  • The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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  • The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
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  • The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
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  • The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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  • The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
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  • The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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  • The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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  • These are days when no one should rely unduly on his ''competence.'' Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
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  • To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
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  • We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.
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  • 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.
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  • All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
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