Quotes by Benjamin, Walter

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function canno >>

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstas >>

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

Quotations about Books - Reading

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's >>

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled ou >>

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we >>

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 who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.

Benjamin, Walter