Quotes by Benjamin, Walter

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was e >>

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter >>

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is wor >>

Quotations about Past

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chi >>

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born >>

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forwar >>

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

Benjamin, Walter