Quote by Walter Benjamin
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without frigh

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. – Walter Benjamin

Other quotes by Walter Benjamin

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. – Walter Benjamin

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Absence
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. – Walter Benjamin

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Past, the
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Perception

The dung beetle, seeing its child on the wall, thinks it sees a pearl on a thread. – Arabic Proverb

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Perception

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. – Ruth Benedict

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Perception

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. – G. K. Chesterton

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Perception

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The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something. – Eric Sevareid

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The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude. – Arnold Glasgow

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