Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. – Walter Benjamin
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
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
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. – Walter Benjamin