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May Quotes by Walter Benjamin
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may…
- Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but…
More May Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh