Walter Benjamin's Profile
Brief about Walter Benjamin: By info that we know Walter Benjamin was born at 1970-01-01. And also Walter Benjamin is German Critic.
Some Walter Benjamin's quotes. Goto "Walter Benjamin's quotation" section for more.The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Tags: Beauty, Good, HappinessOf all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
Tags: Poor, Write, WritingOpinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
Tags: Existence, Opinions, SocialThe 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.
Tags: Again, Past, TrueMemory 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.
Tags: Experience, Lie, PastHe who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
Tags: Dresses, Lying, SomeoneEvery passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Tags: Chaos, Memories, PassionIt is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
Tags: Attitude, Opinion, SomeoneDeath is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Tags: Authority, Death, TellThe art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Tags: Art, Truth, WisdomThe greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Tags: Art, Between, SocialAll disgust is originally disgust at touching.
Tags: Disgust, Originally, TouchingBoredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
Tags: Away, Experience, HimThe camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
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