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Biography: Walter Benjamin was a German philosopher and cultural critic known for... more Biography: Walter Benjamin was a German philosopher and cultural critic known for his essays on literature, art, and history. Born in 1892, his work blends elements of Marxism, Jewish mysticism, and critical theory. Key works include "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" and "Theses on the Philosophy of History." He died in 1940. less
"For the sake of knowledge and a better-informed public, it is necessary to celebrate a cult of the book, even and especially in these times of the book's accelerated commodification."
Tags: Knowledge, Education, Reading, Information, Literacy
"Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby."
Tags: Literature, Metaphor, Writing, Books, Satire
"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 quite a different schooling."
Tags: Self-discovery, Adventure, Metaphor, Inner journey, City life
"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."
Tags: Perception, Subconscious, Psychoanalysis, Photography, Unconscious
"The truth must be touched in the way snakes are touched, with a stick."
Tags: Philosophy, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Truth
"Every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably"
Tags: History, Memory, Past, Recognition, Heritage
"There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism"
Tags: Philosophy, Humanity, Progress, History, Paradox
"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater"
Tags: Philosophy, Perception, Reflection, Exploration, Consciousness
"The role of the storyteller is to regenerate the past so that it might deliver its message for the present moment"
Tags: Wisdom, Reflection, History, Storytelling, Present moment
"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the state of emergency in which we live is not the exception but the rule"
Tags: Philosophy, Social justice, Oppression, Resistance, Power dynamics
"The gold of the adventurer is not the same as the gold of the alchemist"
Tags: Philosophy, Perspective, Transformation, Adventure, Metaphor
"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest "
Tags: Truth, Integrity, Morality, Honesty, Deception
"Every passion borders on the chaotic but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories "
Tags: Passion, Emotion, Nostalgia, Memories, Chaos
"Experience has taught me that the features of a man's face are a narrative which is revealed as attentively as a fragment of a written text "
Tags: Perception, Identity, Experience, Storytelling, Interpretation
"The true picture of the past flits by "
Tags: Perception, Reflection, Time, History, Memory
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