Walter Benjamin quotes

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These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are stru ...
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out.... Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him ...
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine o ...
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
The killing of a criminal can be moral--but never its legitimation.
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