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 , Critic
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisd... -Walter Benjamin

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Walter Benjamin , Critic

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Walter Benjamin , Critic
The only way of knowing a person is to love them w... -Walter Benjamin

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

Walter Benjamin , Critic
Discovering the context

The quote implies that true understanding and connection with another person can be achieved when love is offered without expectations or attachments to specific outcomes, suggesting that love transcends hope.

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 , Critic
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretati... -Walter Benjamin

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Walter Benjamin , Critic
The art of storytelling is reaching its end becaus... -Walter Benjamin

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

Walter Benjamin , Critic

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Walter Benjamin , Critic
It is only for the sake of those without hope that... -Walter Benjamin

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

Walter Benjamin , Critic
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The quote proposes that hope exists for the benefit or consolation of those who lack hope, implying a sense of responsibility or duty to provide hope to those in despair or desperate situations.

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