Quotes by : Walter Benjamin

What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.

Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought.....

The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor....

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.....

This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming....

To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control....

Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.

History is written by the victors.