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Us Quotes by Walter Benjamin
- The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
- Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly.…
- 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…
- We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to…
- The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on…
- In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle