“History is written by the victors.”
― Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
“Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”
― Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
“There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”
― Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”
― Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
“Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.”
― Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
“All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.”
― Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
“Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars"
― Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
“Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.”
― Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
“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 (1892-1940)
“All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.”
― Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
"The experience of our generation:
that capitalism will not die a natural death."
― Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule."
― Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out."
― Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
"Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness."
― Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)