Quotes Walter Benjamin

All disgust is originally disgust at touching....

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation....

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public....

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience...

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom....

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tel...

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's pa...

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal s...

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock....

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someo...

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is g...

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated ...

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in ...

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its t...

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is ...

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest on...

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what ...

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out ...

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to...

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic...

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without...

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psych...

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts...

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that l...

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an ar...