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Walter Benjamin
German, Critic
Total Quotes : 26
Book
Lovingly
Cannibal
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
- Walter Benjamin
Etiquette
Like
Someone
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
- Walter Benjamin
Affect
Shock
Receiver
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
- Walter Benjamin
Wisdom
Counsel
Woven
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
- Walter Benjamin
Egg
Boredom
Away
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
- Walter Benjamin
Interpretation
Form
Takes
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
- Walter Benjamin
Books
Public
Quarrels
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
- Walter Benjamin
Chaos
Borders
Chaotic
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
- Walter Benjamin
Memory
Which
Cities
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
- Walter Benjamin
Art
New
Distinction
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.
- Walter Benjamin
Happy
Aware
Fright
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
- Walter Benjamin
Unconscious
Does
Impulses
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
- Walter Benjamin
Interest
Private
Public
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
- Walter Benjamin
Love
Knowing
Person
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
- Walter Benjamin
Hidden
Over It
Over
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
- Walter Benjamin
Process
Unlimited
Scope
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
Hope
Only
Given
It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
- Walter Benjamin
Far
More
Than
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
- Walter Benjamin
Character
Worth Living
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
- Walter Benjamin
Beauty
Idea
A Good Thing
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
- Walter Benjamin
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