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Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
For me, it was like this: pronounced antipathy to conversing about matters of practical life, the future, dates, politics. You are fixated on the intellectual sphere as a man possessed may be fixated on the sexual: under its spell, sucked into it (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs... and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away... The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates in clearing away traces of our own age (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling (Walter Benjamin Quotes)
In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause (Walter Benjamin Quotes)