Walter Benjamin
Related ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES OSCAR WILDE WALTER BENJAMIN EMILE DURKHEIM RICHARD CARLSON THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of... KAZI SHAMS AUDREY NIFFENEGGER The beauty of the Catholic church is that it has a sacramental structure that can hold its own with ... JOHN O'DONOHUE The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pourin... ANDREI TARKOVSKY WALTER BENJAMIN ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Now is everythingKAREN HACKEL CHARLES DICKENS ALAN LIGHTMAN GINA GREENLEE The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualit... MARGARET MURRAY MAX WEBER GARTH STEIN DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Wherefore a man can know nothing by himself, save after a natural manner, which is only that which h... SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS RICHARD CARLSON The crisis of history in France, is a crisis of social bond, a crisis of citizenship. A citizen is t... JEAN SEVILLIA FULTON J. SHEEN Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot o... ROBERT FARRAR CAPON WILLIAM LAW One must complete the past to embrace the future, however to embrace the future one must forgive the... CAITLIN D'ONOFRIO MICHELANGELO ALBERT EINSTEIN Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had... ROGER LOWENSTEIN PAUL BOWLES ANNA QUINDLEN To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... PATTI SMITH C.S. LEWIS The scientific age with its urban-industrial culture is, for all its magnificent achievements and in... W. G. POLLARD MILAN KUNDERA ALBERT EINSTEIN GEORGE ORWELL I'm prepared now to use the wonderful word confluence, which of itself exists as a reality and a sym... EUDORA WELTY ECKHART TOLLE VIKTOR E. FRANKL THICH NHAT HANH The Present Cant block out the past, Only a new past can block out the old ROBERT JAMES The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate... JOSIAH WARREN FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER FRIEDRICH SCHILLER JOHANN VON SCHILLER TERRY GOODKIND VIKTOR E. FRANKL BRUNO BETTELHEIM FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK Live your life in present. You may take past as learning lesson & hope for the future but you can ma... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER DWIGHT D EISENHOWER DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER MARCEL PROUST JOSEPH MORRELL DODGE What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his... JOSEPH M. DODGE In the present, there is only the here and now.GABRIELLA GODDARD RALPH WALDO EMERSON FREDERICK W. FABER MIREILLE GUILIANO You want to see some of the basics of the city, which aren't expensive at all, like the Empire State... NATHAN LUMP MARCEL PROUST GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG He who wishes to explain Generation must take for his theme the organic body and its constituent par... CASPAR FRIEDRICH WOLFF ADAM SMITH SAINT TERESA OF AVILA RALPH WALDO EMERSON RACHEL CARSON MURRAY N. ROTHBARD Lockheed now has an additional $1.7 billion of cash to deploy, and its use of it should be a key to ... JOSEPH NADOL MARIA MONTESSORI Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO C.S. LEWIS As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my v... PRANAB MUKHERJEE B. R. AMBEDKAR An implementation of transformation might be an option pre-Internet era, but now the transparency ha... ANUJ SOMANY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as w... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI JOHN JAY CHAPMAN ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE T.S. ELIOT GILBERT NEWTON LEWIS ELLIOTT ERWITT I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present. JONATHAN HARNISCH The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the i... HAROLD EDMUND STEARNS SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL JOHN BERGER ARISTOTLE The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all th... ALFRED WHITEHEAD ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD You can only be sure of what you've done in the past and what you are doing in the present, but neve... JENNY ROSALES-FERAER Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I ... RUTH OZEKI ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
More Walter Benjamin
WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER BENJAMIN WALTER CRONKITE I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center&#... WALTER O'BRIEN WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BECKER WALTER BAGEHOT WALTER BAGEHOT WALTER BAGEHOT WALTER BAGEHOT WALTER BAGEHOT WALTER BAGEHOT WALTER BAGEHOT WALTER BAGEHOT WALTER BAGEHOT WALTER BAGEHOT WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANNENBERG WALTER ANDERSON WALTER ANDERSON WALTER ANDERSON I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches. WALTER ALSTON I put myself through college playing pool. WALTER ALSTON I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things. WALTER ALSTON The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all condi... WALTER ALSTON I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job. WALTER ALSTON I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or ho... WALTER ALSTON I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; ... ULRICH WALTER Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I... ULRICH WALTER WALTER WRISTON WALTER WINCHELL WALTER WINCHELL WALTER WINCHELL WALTER WINCHELL WALTER WINCHELL WALTER WINCHELL WALTER WINCHELL WALTER WINCHELL What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of... WALTER WASHINGTON Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people wor... WALTER WASHINGTON I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law. WALTER WAGER I always liked spy stories. WALTER WAGER I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting. WALTER WAGER In France, I learned about wine and cheese. WALTER WAGER I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. WALTER WAGER The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, a... WALTER ULBRICHT May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany. WALTER ULBRICHT The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize pr... WALTER ULBRICHT The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine... WALTER ULBRICHT The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the fe... WALTER ULBRICHT When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its det... WALTER ULBRICHT The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democrati... WALTER ULBRICHT In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened. WALTER ULBRICHT The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individuall... WALTER ULBRICHT Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan ... WALTER ULBRICHT The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a f... WALTER ULBRICHT The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the vict... WALTER ULBRICHT Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for pe... WALTER ULBRICHT This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people. WALTER ULBRICHT It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification. WALTER ULBRICHT Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obs... WALTER ULBRICHT Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales. WALTER ULBRICHT The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in ... WALTER SMITH There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life. WALTER SMITH From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football ... WALTER SMITH Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think. WALTER SMITH I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attent... WALTER SMITH If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and mana... WALTER SMITH Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I... WALTER SMITH Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. WALTER SMITH WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT. WALTER SALLES We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred... WALTER SALLES The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America. WALTER SALLES The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that ... WALTER SALLES The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for t... WALTER SALLES The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations be... WALTER SALLES That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you unde... WALTER SALLES
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource prid... 
For he to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he l... 
He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be... 
The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with o... 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. 
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagi... 
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealt... 
The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexi... 
The solution which I am urging is to eradicate the fatal disconnection of subjects which kills the v... 
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares an... 
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain eff... 
Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it. 
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his po... 
And it is clear to Evan, now: the difference between what is and what has been done; the present and... 
It is only the cynic who claims “to speak the truth” at all times and in all places to all men i... 
To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and diss... 
Each of these foregoing states has its time, its variety of workings, its trials, temptations, and p... 
The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially cont... 
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us... 
Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdraw... 
London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And ... 
I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be s... 
And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after ... 
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has... 
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us bel... 
The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oc... 
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time b... 
The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which ... 
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. 
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. 
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. 
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. 
Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish thing... 
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters... 
For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet... 
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, ... 
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futil... 
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futil... 
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futil... 
I put down my cup and examine my own mind. It is for it to discover the truth. But how? What an abys... 
What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his... 
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys... 
Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330 Wherever we turn in the church of ... 
I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gi... 
[T]his jealousy gave him, if anything, an agreeable chill, as, to the sad Parisian who is leaving Ve... 
Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhapp... 
In civilized society man stands at all times in need of the cooperation and assistance of great mult... 
Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects ... 
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; t... 
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future.... 
If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must... 
The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is ... 
As the uneasiness and reluctance to face it cut him off more and more from all real happiness, and a... 
Emerson has said that consistency is a virtue of an ass. No thinking human being can be tied down to... 
For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as w... 
The only path to finding out what life is about is a patient, slow attempt to make sense of the real... 
The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he ha... 
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with... 
time past and time future
We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to com... 
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photo... 
There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn o... 
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off ... 
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks ch... 
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. 
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memori... 
America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. 
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poure... 
There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that ... 
All our wives are experimental psychologists. 
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. 
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d... 
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ... 
It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause... 
I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty. 
What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold. 
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible f... 
Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured. 
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, ne... 
Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment. 
She's been on more laps than a napkin. 
Nothing recedes like success. 
I never lost a friend I wanted to keep. 
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he... 
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out o... 
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. 