Quotes by Benjamin, Walter

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dre >>

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judg >>

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steep >>

Quotations about Cities and City Life

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere >>

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at s >>

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of styl >>

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter