Quotes by : Walter Benjamin

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

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

The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only....

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it....

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

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

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

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

Languages are not strangers to on another.