All Walter Benjamin Quotes
- He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid to… Afraid
- We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are… Already Taking
- Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. Approach
- Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the… Amount
- In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This… Art
- Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed. Capitalism
- The camera... on the one hand extends our comprehension of the necessities that rule our lives; on the other, it manages to assure us of… Action
- Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. Book
- Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in… Alive
- Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future. Decipher
- I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order. Book
- To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves. All
- To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary. Always Appears
- Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in… Banal
- Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. Allegories
- The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph. Alphabet
- The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his… Brings
- Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way… Cities
- Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption. Bound
- Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go… Accustomed