Walter Benjamin Quotes
- Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who… — Mary Jo Bang
- Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had… — Hannah Arendt
- An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem… — Istvan Deak
- Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin. — Avital Ronell
- At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried… — Hannah Arendt
- The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the… — Terry Eagleton