Walter Benjamin Quotes and its meanings

Walter Benjamin has written on many topics. Some of the topics he has discussed most are as follows;

Art Attitude Beauty Death Experience Happiness Hope Knowledge Truth Wisdom

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What does Walter Benjamin write about?

Walter Benjamin has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about art, attitude, beauty, death, experience, happiness, hope, knowledge, truth & wisdom. People always share Art quotes, Attitude quotes, beauty, death, experience, happiness, hope, knowledge, truth & wisdom from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by Walter Benjamin?

Here are the top most famous quotes by Walter Benjamin.

  • The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
  • The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
  • It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
  • The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
  • Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
  • Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
  • Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
  • The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
  • All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
  • Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.