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Walter Benjamin Quotes

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

"To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it the way it was "

Tags: History, Memory, Historical perspective, Historiography, Historical analysis

"The angel would like to stay awaken the dead and make whole what has been smashed But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them"

Tags: Transformation, Existence, Struggle, Violence, Redemption

"It is not that what is past casts its light on what is present or what is present its light on what is past rather image is that wherein what has been comes together in a flash with the now to form a constellation"

Tags: Philosophy, Time, History, Memory, Metaphysics

"A man who died at thirty-five will appear to distant generations as a young man, almost a boy, while his contemporaries who reached a ripe old age will always seem to me to have been born old."

Tags: Perspective, Perception, Time, Legacy, Memory

"The work of memory collapses time"

Tags: Philosophy, Perception, Reflection, Psychology, Time

"Seizing the day, amidst its acceleration and decay"

Tags: Motivation, Inspiration, Philosophy, Life, Change

"History is written by the victors"

Tags: Perspective, Power, History, Memory, Conflict

"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope"

Tags: Love, Relationships, Human nature, Understanding, Hope