“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than of convictions, and of such facts as… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close....… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
For me, it was like this: pronounced antipathy to conversing about matters of practical life, the future, dates, politics. You are fixated… — 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
