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Walter Benjamin (Philosopher)

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 men
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
— Walter Benjamin knowledge
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
— Walter Benjamin life
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
— Walter Benjamin fashion
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
— Walter Benjamin truth
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
— Walter Benjamin life
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
— Walter Benjamin book
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
— Walter Benjamin purpose
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
— Walter Benjamin love
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
— Walter Benjamin war
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
— Walter Benjamin passion
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
— Walter Benjamin music
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 art
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
— Walter Benjamin
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
— Walter Benjamin death
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
— Walter Benjamin writing
All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
— Walter Benjamin
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
— Walter Benjamin dream
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 reality
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
— Walter Benjamin books
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
— Walter Benjamin life
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
— Walter Benjamin happiness
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
— Walter Benjamin past
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 lies
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
— Walter Benjamin men
Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.
— Walter Benjamin war

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