Logo
Quote by Walter Benjamin
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and s

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. – Walter Benjamin

Other quotes by Walter Benjamin

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information — hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. – Walter Benjamin

Category:
Translation
Author
Walter Benjamin
Read Quote

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

Category:
Charity
Author
Walter Benjamin
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Absence
category

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. – Elizabeth Ashley

Category:
Absence

Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love. – Proverb

Category:
Absence

Never find fault with the absent. – Proverb

Category:
Absence

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. – Elizabeth Bowen

Category:
Absence

Random Quotes

I slept for four years. I didnt study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts. – Don DeLillo

Category:
communication

Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the worlds great rogues in Iran and Syria. – Robert McFarlane

Category:
Technology

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos

Category:
Experience

Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one. – Art Buchwald, 1969

Category:
Media