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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

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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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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The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms. – Christopher Dawson

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There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. – Albert Einstein

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Knowledge

He that hath knowledge spareth his words. – Francis Bacon

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Knowledge

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. – Orville Wright

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Knowledge

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The best thing for me is, when Im not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines. – Christopher Walken

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It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister. – Robert B. Laughlin

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Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. – Christopher Lasch

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Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning – its a man or a woman without a sense of humor. – Jonathan Winters

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