All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.
Walter BenjaminTag: art war propaganda aesthetics poltics
Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.
Walter BenjaminThe book borrower… proves himself to be an in venerate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures… as by his failure to read these books.
Walter BenjaminBooks, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.
Walter BenjaminWhat matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him means: to set the sails. It is the way they are set that matters. Words are his sails. The way they are set turns them into concepts.
Walter BenjaminTag: thinking history dialectics
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.
Walter BenjaminTag: life
Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.
Walter BenjaminWork on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.
Walter BenjaminTag: writing-process
You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.
Walter BenjaminAny order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.
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