Walter Benjamin Quotes

Zur Verknechtung der Sprache im Geschwätz tritt die Verknechtung der Dinge in der Narretei fast als deren unausbleibliche Folge.

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• To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Different
  • Die
  • Luckier

• I will keep painting until I die.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Die
  • Painting
  • Will

• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Listen

• It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Die
  • Chance
  • Finding

• The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Real
  • You
  • Die

• Live fast, die young.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Live
  • Die
  • Fast

• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Faith
  • Die
  • Famous

• Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Life
  • Die
  • Never

• I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • May
  • Experience

• When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Culture
  • Faith
  • Die

• When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Working
  • First
  • Year

• To retire is to begin to die.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Die
  • Begin
  • Retire

• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Men
  • History

• Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Work
  • Long
  • High

• I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Friends
  • Die
  • Regret

• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Helping
  • Patient

• You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Die
  • Learn
  • Copy

• Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Die
  • Rest
  • The Lord

• 'The trouble is, it's hard to know you're little,' says Felicity. 'People like to make themselves matter.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • People

• An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Time

• Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Pretty
  • Personality

• With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Power
  • Horse
  • Rise

• Zur Verknechtung der Sprache im Geschwätz tritt die Verknechtung der Dinge in der Narretei fast als deren unausbleibliche Folge.

  

  Walter Benjamin
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