Quotes by Benjamin, Walter

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like >>

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. >>

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has >>

Quotations about Truth

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what t >>

The greater the truth the greater the libel. >>

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a >>

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter