375 Quotes by Walter Benjamin

A Dostoeivski le interesaba la psicología; sacó a la luz la parte criminal que hay en el hombre. A Brecht le interesa la política; saca a la luz la parte criminal que hay en el negocio.

Mientras el capitalismo rija los destinos del cine, el único servicio que cabe esperar del cine a favor de la revolución es que permita la crítica revolucionaria de los conceptos tradicionales del arte.

All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

Unlimited goodwill. Suspension of the compulsive anxiety complex. The beautiful "character" unfolds. All of those present become comically iridescent. At the same time one is pervaded by their aura.

Podría decirse que los proverbios son ruinas que están en el lugar de viejas historias, y donde, como la hiedra en la muralla, una moraleja trepa sobre un gesto

Das Werk ist die Totenmaske der Konzeption.

Die Rede erobert den Gedanken, aber die Schrift beherrscht ihn.

There is no event or thing in either animate or inanimate nature that does not in some way partake of language.

Nature creates similarities. One need only think of mimicry. The highest capacity for producing similarities, however, is man’s. His gift in seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like something else. Perhaps there is none of his higher functions in which his memetic faculty does not play a decisive role.