He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. – Walter Benjamin
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. – Walter Benjamin

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. – Walter Benjamin
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. – Walter Benjamin
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. – Walter Benjamin
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