Walter Benjamin's Quote - All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a mat

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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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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. – Walter Benjamin

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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. – Walter Benjamin

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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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