Quote by Walter Benjamin
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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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. – Walter Benjamin

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Experience
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. – Walter Benjamin

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Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. – Friedrich von Schiller

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Masses

The mind of the people is like mud, from which arise strange and beautiful things. – W. J. Turner

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Masses

Minorities are individual or groups of individuals especially qualified. The masses are the collection of people not specially qualified. – Jos

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