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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reali

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. – Walter Benjamin

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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. – Walter Benjamin

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Walter Benjamin
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Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information — hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. – Walter Benjamin

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The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the caf – Jos

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The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. – Epicurus

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The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. – Georges Bernanos

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Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? – Yevgeny Zamyatin

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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us. – Oswald Chambers

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