Astronomy Quote by Walter Benjamin Download Open image “Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].” — Walter Benjamin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Astronomy Constellations Ideas Stars
“the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It is instructive to note that different cultures "discovered" completely different constellations in the sky, a fact that is more consistent with the idea… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“My constellations are not made from the stars, but from the spaces between the stars. The dark places. The open places, where your mind… — T. A. Barron Copy Share Image
''In the end we are just a constellation in a mass of stars trying to find our own way.'' — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“I once had a book on the stars but now I don't. My memory serves but not stellar, ha. So I made up constellations.… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines… — Rebecca Solnit 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
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the… — Paulo Coelho 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
Wen daylight turns to a darkened hue, D lovely stars hinting at u, ur heart beat tells u something true, That some 1 badly… — Butterfly_Kisses Copy Share Image
Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their quest for… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
“If there are no stars on the sky, you must try to be happy with the shining streetlights!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Twinking tears in a sea of black. Soft light in a world of darkness. Tiny wishes in a place of dreams. Do you see… — Nicole Gentile Copy Share Image
Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." ... quote has been credited to Les Brown.” — Sylviek Copy Share Image