Quotes by Benjamin, Walter

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion bord >>

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. >>

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the pre >>

Quotations about Memory

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. >>

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories wh >>

We don't remember days; we remember moments. >>

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.

Benjamin, Walter