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Quote by Walter Benjamin
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. - Walter Ben

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. – Walter Benjamin

Other quotes by 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

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Charity
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Walter Benjamin
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These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed. – Walter Benjamin

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Apathy
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Walter Benjamin
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Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. – Walter Benjamin

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Communism
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Walter Benjamin
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Im one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around. – Jennie Garth

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As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God. – John Jewel

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If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity. – Xun Zi

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning. – Thomas a Kempis

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But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us. – Michael Tilson Thomas

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