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13535 quotesSeparation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Absence
Walter Benjamin
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Story and Story-Telling
Walter Benjamin
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
Photography
Walter Benjamin
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
Facts
Walter Benjamin
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Beauty
Walter Benjamin
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Relationships
Walter Benjamin
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Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
Freedom
Ernest Benn
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Politicians and Politics
Tony Benn
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Adversity
Arnold Bennet
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Books - Classics
Alan Bennett
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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
Mistakes
Arnold Bennett
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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Change
Arnold Bennett
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Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Writers and Writing
Arnold Bennett
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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Effort
Arnold Bennett
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Cleverness
Arnold Bennett
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The price of justice is eternal publicity.
Publicity
Arnold Bennett
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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
Mistakes
James Gordon Bennett
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The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
Culture
Jesse Bennett
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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
Marriage
Jill Bennett
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Mind
Thomas A. Bennett
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We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
Time and Time Management
Thomas A. Bennett
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I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
Originality
Tony Bennett
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There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
Attitude
William John Bennett
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Honor the ocean of love.
Love
George De Benneville
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Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.
Learning
James Bennis
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun