Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. – Walter Benjamin
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. – Walter Benjamin
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. – Walter Benjamin
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. – Walter Benjamin
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
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