[ walter benjamin Quotes ]
14 Quotations
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
[ Things and Little Things ]
Walter Benjamin
9 votes
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
[ Literary Criticism ]
Walter Benjamin
7 votes
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
[ Procreation ]
Walter Benjamin
22 votes
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
[ Public Opinion ]
Walter Benjamin
10 votes
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
[ Absence ]
Walter Benjamin
23 votes
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
[ Story and Story-Telling ]
Walter Benjamin
30 votes
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
[ Photography ]
Walter Benjamin
18 votes
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
[ Facts ]
Walter Benjamin
19 votes
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
[ Beauty ]
Walter Benjamin
28 votes
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
[ Relationships ]
Walter Benjamin
28 votes
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
[ Awareness ]
Walter Benjamin
27 votes
