The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. – Walter Benjamin
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. – Walter Benjamin
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. – Walter Benjamin
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. – Walter Benjamin