All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Man's gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not… — 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 true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“What is aura? A peculiar web of space and time: the unique manifestation of a distance, however near it may be. To… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
... [L]ess than at any time does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality. A photograph of the Krupp… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than… — 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
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
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
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