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Walter Benjamin Quotes

Walter Benjamin quotes

Deutsch Critic, Philosopher July 15, 1892 – September 27, 1940

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In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause. Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin quote: "Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal..."
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin quote: "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
Fragments of a vessel which are to be glued together must match one another in the smallest details, although they need not be like one another. In the same way a translation, instead of resembling the meaning of the original, must lovingly and in detail incorporate the original's mode of signification, thus making both the original and the translation recognizable as fragments of a greater language, just as fragments are part of a vessel. Walter Benjamin
Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way in a forest, requires some schooling. Street names must speak to the urban wanderer like the snapping of dry twigs, and little streets in the heart of the city must reflect the times of day, for him, as clearly as a mountain valley. This art I acquired rather late in life; it fulfilled a dream, of which the first traces were labyrinths on the blotting papers in my school notebooks. Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin quote: "what draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his..."
what draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his shivering life with a death he reads about Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin quote: "Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom."
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin quote: "The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that..."
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin quote: "The construction of life is at present in the power of facts..."
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin quote: "Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical..."
Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order. Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin quote: "Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as..."
Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens. Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin quote: "The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be..."
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. Walter Benjamin
I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order. I cannot march up and down their ranks to pass them in review before a friendly audience. You need not fear any of that. Instead, I must ask you to join me in the disorder of crates that have been wrenched open, the air saturated with the dust of wood, the floor covered with torn paper, to join me among piles of volumes that are seeing daylight again after two years of... Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin quote: "To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without..."
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. Walter Benjamin
Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons, this mode of reception gives the masses no means of organizing and regulating their response. Thus, the same public which reacts progressively to a slapstick comedy inevitably displays a backward attitude toward Surrealism. Walter Benjamin

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