Famous Walter Benjamin Quotes

  • Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness. – Walter Benjamin

    Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.– Walter Benjamin

  • Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man. – Walter Benjamin

    Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man.– Walter Benjamin

  • Languages are not strangers to on another. – Walter Benjamin

    Languages are not strangers to on another.– Walter Benjamin

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

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

  • As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth. – Walter Benjamin

    As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.– Walter Benjamin

  • What has been forgotten…. is never something purely individual. – Walter Benjamin

    What has been forgotten…. is never something purely individual.– Walter Benjamin

  • There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism. – Walter Benjamin

    There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.– Walter Benjamin

  • History is written by the victors. – Walter Benjamin

    History is written by the victors.– Walter Benjamin

  • The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there. – Walter Benjamin

    The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there.– Walter Benjamin

  • All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. – Walter Benjamin

    All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.– Walter Benjamin