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Quote by Walter Benjamin
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. – Walter Benjamin

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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. – 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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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. – Walter Benjamin

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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other mens thoughts, to speak other mens words, to follow other mens habits. – Walter Bagehot

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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. – Walter Benjamin

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Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree. – Irving Batcheller

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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods – Hannah Arendt

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