Logo
Quote by Walter Benjamin
Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function c

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

Other quotes by Walter Benjamin
Other Quotes from
Translation
category

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. – Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

Category:
Translation

The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To make a beeline for something. Thats worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. I guess Ill split is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded. – Robert Fitzgerald

Category:
Translation

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. – Leonardo Sciascia

Category:
Translation

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift. – Harry Mathews

Category:
Translation

Random Quotes

Control your clutter or it will control you. – Author unknown

Category:
Clutter

My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality. – Jay London

Category:
dating

As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path… we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart. – Sarah Ban Breathnach

Category:
Things, Little Things

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? – George Eliot

Category:
Fight, Fighting