Author: Walter Benjamin

Quotes

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

- Walter Benjamin

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

- Walter Benjamin

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

- Walter Benjamin

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

- Walter Benjamin

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

- Walter Benjamin

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

- Walter Benjamin

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

- Walter Benjamin

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

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

- Walter Benjamin

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

- Walter Benjamin

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