Walter Benjamin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Walter Benjamin quotes and sayings page 2 (critic). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 30 we have.
“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.”
“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”
“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”
“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.”
“The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.”
“Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.”
“Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.”
“The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.”
“Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. 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.”
“All disgust is originally disgust at touching.”
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