Walter Benjamin quotes

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

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

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.

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

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

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

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

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.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

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

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

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.