Collapse Quote by Walter Benjamin Download Open image “The work of memory collapses time.” — Walter Benjamin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Collapse Memories Memory Time
A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use. — Jimmy Savile Copy Share Image
Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup.… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The human brain has a monstrous ability to re-create memories of such clarity that the rest of the body loses all sense of time.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness. — Adrian Forty 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 was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China]. — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in,… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
I love that the collapse of The Other Side is being felt in both 'The Vampire Diaries' and 'The Originals' universes - as someone… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
NAFTA, by itself, will not collapse. The possibility is that the United States leaves the treaty, but the treaty itself would keep regulating relations… — Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Copy Share Image
I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans.… — Charles Foster Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
