Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the... — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than of convictions, and of such facts as have scarcely… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“It should be pointed out that certain correlative concepts retain their meaning, and possibly their foremost significance, if they are referred exclusively to man.… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
