Chaos Quote by Walter Benjamin Download Open image ““Every passion borders on chaos, that of the collector on the chaos of memory.”” — Walter Benjamin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chaos Chaos Collector Chaos Memory Collector Collector Chaos Memory Passion
“We are, each and every one of us, addicted to chaos. Gorgeous, devouring, chaos. Every visceral pleasure comes from the moment when we truly… — Michael R. Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade.” — Daniel Alarcón Copy Share Image
“Memory is a great servant, but really bad master. When memory plays its role as a master, it limits our choices. It choices doors… — Ika Natassa Copy Share Image
“Each time I have a lapse of memory, I think of the anguish which must afflict those who know they no longer remember anything.… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Confusion: the bastard half brother of chaos. Chaos: the torture instrument of forgetting.” — Preti Taneja Copy Share Image
“The ineffable talent for finding patterns in chaos cannot do its thing unless he immerses himself in the chaos first.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for… — Juhani Peltonen Copy Share Image
“Memories are the only things we really own, the only things that stay constant. Everything else becomes dust.” — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than of convictions, and of such facts as have scarcely… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“It should be pointed out that certain correlative concepts retain their meaning, and possibly their foremost significance, if they are referred exclusively to man.… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
If I meet a wise person, I think, 'Yes, tell me more about parenting, about marriage, about how to stay in love. Tell me… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
In the ring, there's not a lot of room for mistakes. You're in a place that is chaos, that is on fire. That ring… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What we should have done is kept the same team that played in the '95 World Series. Those trades (Eddie Murray & Carlos Baerga)… — Albert Belle Copy Share Image
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
