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Walter Benjamin Quotes
«The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.»
«Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.»
«Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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abruptly, cries, immersion, poorer, startled, uproar
«The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.»
«Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
cannibal, lovingly, polemic, polemics, spices
«He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
alert, dexterity, forfeits, fortune teller, fortune tellers, impel, impelled, impels, inertia, intimation, intimations, lays, submissive, tellers, unwittingly
«All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
banal, beggar, honored, miserably, prosaic