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

Quote by Walter Benjamin

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

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. – Walter Benjamin

Category:

Experience

Author

Walter Benjamin

Read Quote

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

Category:

Communism

Author

Walter Benjamin

Read Quote

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

Category:

Knowledge

Author

Walter Benjamin

Read Quote

Other Quotes from

Beauty

Random Quotes

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters. – John Burns

Category:

Morning

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14… I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write. – John Irving

Category:

Age

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Category:

respect

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home. – Miriam Makeba

Category:

Home