Walter Benjamin Quotes

• History breaks down into images, not into stories.

  Walter Benjamin

  Stories, Breaking Down, Break

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• All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

  Walter Benjamin

  Intelligence, Form, Interpretation

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

  Walter Benjamin

  Amor, Amistad, Relación

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• We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Facts, Belief

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• The work of memory collapses time.

  Walter Benjamin

  Memories, Collapse

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• Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

  Walter Benjamin

  Inspirational, Civilization, Barbarism

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• To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

  Walter Benjamin

  Happiness, Being Happy, Fear

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.463, Harvard University Press

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• Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

  Walter Benjamin

  Learning, Photograph, Illiterate

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• Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

  Walter Benjamin

  Judging, Public Opinion, Matter

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.433, Harvard University Press

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• Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.

  Walter Benjamin

  Thinking, Flow, Wells

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.272, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Art, Unique, Space

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

  Walter Benjamin

  Civilization, Barbarism, Documents

  "Theses on the Philosophy of History" by Walter Benjamin, translated by Harry Zohn, Illuminations, (VII), 1973.

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• La propiedad es la relación más íntima que se puede tener con los objetos. No es que cobren vida en él; es él quien vive en ellos.

  Walter Benjamin

  Intimate Relationships, Alive, Ownership

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

  Walter Benjamin

  Ideas, Progress, Status Quo

  Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings (2003). “Selected Writings: 1938-1940”, p.184, Harvard University Press

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• No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

  Walter Benjamin

  Symphony, Beholder, Reader

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• La cámara nos introduce en la óptica inconsciente como el psicoanálisis lo hace en los impulsos inconscientes.

  Walter Benjamin

  Photography, Cameras, Doe

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

  Walter Benjamin

  Writing, Ideas, Delay

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.526, Harvard University Press

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• Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.

  Walter Benjamin

  Past, Disappear

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• 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

  Giving, Worry, Inspire

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• Sólo se da esperanza a los que no la tienen.

  Walter Benjamin

  Given, Without Hope

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• El objetivo de la opinión pública generada por la prensa es precisamente incapacitar al público para juzgar, insinuar en él la actitud de alguien irresponsable, desinformado.

  Walter Benjamin

  Attitude, Media, Judging

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.433, Harvard University Press

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• You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Men, Taste

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• The experience of our generation:
  that capitalism will not die a natural death.

  Walter Benjamin

  Our Generation, Generations, Natural

  Walter Benjamin, Rolf Tiedemann (1999). “The Arcades Project”, p.948, Harvard University Press

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• All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

  Walter Benjamin

  Literature, Great Work, Genre

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• 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

  Emergencies, Tradition, States

  Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings (2003). “Selected Writings: 1938-1940”, p.392, Harvard University Press

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