Walter Benjamin Quotes

Most popular Walter Benjamin Quotes

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. - Walter Benjamin quote.
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
— Walter Benjamin One-Way Street

gift

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. - Walter Benjamin quote.
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
— Walter Benjamin Illuminations

advice

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us. - Walter Benjamin quote.
It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
— Walter Benjamin
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. - Walter Benjamin quote.
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
— Walter Benjamin Illuminations

camera

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.  A rustling in the leaves drives him away. - Walter Benjamin quote.
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.  A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
— Walter Benjamin The Storyteller
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. - Walter Benjamin quote.
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
— Walter Benjamin One-Way Street

manners

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out, armed, and relieve the idle stroller of his convictions. - Walter Benjamin quote.
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out, armed, and relieve the idle stroller of his convictions.
— Walter Benjamin One-Way Street

quotations

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. - Walter Benjamin quote.
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
— Walter Benjamin One-Way Street

prose