Walter Benjamin Quotes - Page 6

• Hace tiempo que hemos olvidado el ritual por el que se erigió la casa de nuestra vida. Pero cuando está bajo asalto y las bombas enemigas ya están haciendo estragos, ¿qué antigüedades enervadas y perversas no dejan al descubierto en los cimientos?

  Walter Benjamin

  Life, Long, House

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

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  Book, Treasure, Prove

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• For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.

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  Party, Springtime, Metaphor

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (1999). “Gesammelte Schriften”, p.216, Harvard University Press

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• I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain.

  Walter Benjamin

  Mountain, Mice

  "Protocols to the Experiments on Hashish, Opium and Mescaline". Book by Walter Benjamin, 1997.

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• There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

  Walter Benjamin

  Philosophy, Muse, Translations

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist. Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.

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  Winning, Past, Enemy

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.

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  Running, Home, Age

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• Como decía Hegel, sólo en la oscuridad emprende su vuelo el búho de Minerva. Sólo en la extinción comprende el coleccionista.

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  Dark, Owl, Doe

  Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt (1968). “Illuminations”, Schocken Books Incorporated

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• All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

  Walter Benjamin

  Touching, Disgusting

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• Los auténticos polemistas se acercan a un libro con el mismo cariño que un caníbal condimenta a un bebé.

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  Girl, Baby, Book

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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• The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.

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  Heart, Past, Mouths

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at least to detach it from the background of universal delusion, is triumphing almost everywhere.

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  Determination, Growth, Blind

  Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings, Edmund Jephcott (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.37, Harvard University Press

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• Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

  Walter Benjamin

  Libro, Escritura, Personas

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• ... [L]a simple reproducción de la realidad no nos dice nada sobre la realidad. Una fotografía de la fábrica de Krupp o de GEC no aporta casi nada sobre esas instituciones. La realidad propiamente dicha se ha deslizado hacia lo funcional. La cosificación de las relaciones humanas, la fábrica, digamos, ya no revela esas relaciones. Por tanto, hay que construir algo, algo artificial, algo establecido.

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  Simple, Reality, Yield

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• Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

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  Historical, Events, World

  "Protocols to the Experiments on Hashish, Opium and Mescaline". Book by Walter Benjamin, 1997.

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• It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.

  Walter Benjamin

  Writing, Enough Time, Small Villages

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• A bearer of news of death appears to himself as very important. His feeling - even against all reason - makes him a messenger from the realm of the dead.

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  Death, Feelings, Important

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.

  Walter Benjamin

  Tasks, Language, Creation

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What has been forgotten is never something purely individual. Everything forgotten mingles with what has been forgotten of the prehistoric world, forms countless, uncertain, changing compounds, yielding a constant flow of new, strange products.

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  Forgotten, Individual, Has Beens

  "Illuminations".

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• The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.

  Walter Benjamin

  Enormous, Mankind, Models

  Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt (1968). “Illuminations”, Schocken Books Incorporated

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