Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it.
― Walter Benjamin
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Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it.
― Walter Benjamin
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There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
― Walter Benjamin
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There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.
― Walter Benjamin
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Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.
― Walter Benjamin
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Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history. To be sure, only a redeemed mankind receives the fullness of its past — which is to say, only a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments.
― Walter Benjamin
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
― Walter Benjamin
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In every era the attempt must be made anew to wrest tradition away from a conformism that is about to overpower it.
― Walter Benjamin
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Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.
― Frantz Fanon
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The uniqueness of every painting was once part of the uniqueness of the place where it resided.
― John Berger
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The power of an ideology is not only measured by the answers it can provide but by the questions that it is able to suppress.
― Günther Anders
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