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One Quotes by Walter Benjamin
- Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one…
- Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine…
- Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange…
- It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not…
- These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
- Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth…
- He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid to…
- 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…
- 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…
- To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.
- 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 illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.
- 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…
- 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…
- Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.…
- The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away ... The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates…
- All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.
- Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed;…
- As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.
- 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…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle