Construction Quote by Walter Benjamin

“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.”

Walter Benjamin

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All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

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“It should be pointed out that certain correlative concepts retain their meaning, and possibly their foremost significance, if they are referred exclusively to man.…

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Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

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Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

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“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.”

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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative…

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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

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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…

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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…

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For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.

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There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to…

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Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!

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“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”

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I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the…

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It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out…

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“Over 275,000 people had signed to end the construction of the TMT telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) by week 20 of the protest.”

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Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

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Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought…

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