Quotes by : Walter Benjamin

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

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable....

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience,....

No more semblance or disemblance, no more God or Man, only an immanent logic of the principle of operativity.....

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

Every morning brings us news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy stories. This is because....

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him....