Quotes by Benjamin, Walter

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying >>

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is compose >>

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much >>

Quotations about Experience

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsio >>

A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the star >>

I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secur >>

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

Benjamin, Walter