He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. Walter Benjamin Read Quote
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. Walter Benjamin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. Walter Benjamin Read Quote
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories. Walter Benjamin Read Quote
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. Walter Benjamin Read Quote
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. Walter Benjamin Read Quote
