Walter Benjamin Quotes

German - Critic | July 15, 1892 - September 26, 1940

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Walter Benjamin

LifeWisdomRealReal LifeFabric

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

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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

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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.

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WorkGoodThreeStageStepsTextile

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

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PassionMemoriesChaosBordersEvery

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

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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.

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