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

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 adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. – 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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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. – Walter Benjamin

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