Walter Benjamin Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

8 Famous Quotes by Walter Benjamin
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“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”
Awareness Quotes
“These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.”
Competency Quotes
“These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes
“Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.”
All about love 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.”
History Quotes
“Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.”
Loneliness and solitude Quotes
“Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.”
Relationships Quotes
“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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