Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

"What 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."
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"What 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."
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"History is written by the victors."
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"All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war."
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"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."
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"The work of memory collapses time."
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"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories."
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"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
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