Quote by Walter Benjamin
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. – 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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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

Category:
Apathy
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. – Walter Benjamin

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Art
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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Ive actually spent a lot of time researching beauty products, how they are produced and how they are sold. – Lauren Conrad

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Beauty

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. – William Congreve

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Beauty

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. – Aldous Huxley

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Beauty

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God’s plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things. – Tertullian

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Beauty

Random Quotes

Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width. – Bill Veeck, 1975

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World Series

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise. – Mia Love

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Education

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse. – Thomas Fuller

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Home

There are some mortals who are never happy save when they have some hurt feelings to enjoy. – Author unknown, from Dallas-Galveston News, c.1894

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Curmudgeonesque