Quotes by : Walter Benjamin

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between....

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

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

The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced....

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

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

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.

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.