Walter Benjamin Quotes

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Walter Benjamin

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• I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Country

• To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Hands
  • Everything
  • Open

• I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • World
  • Think
  • Moment

• After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • House
  • Control
  • New

• I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Music
  • Like
  • Listen

• I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Think
  • Scary

• Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Myself
  • Hair
  • Forever

• My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • She
  • Hope

• Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Look

• We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Life
  • You
  • Relax

• Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • People
  • Good
  • Moments

• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• I was sitting alone in a grim mood – furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me – from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign – please send the bills to me... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Important
  • Friend
  • Inspired

• You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Important
  • Single
  • Human

• None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Something
  • Lifetime
  • U.S.

• If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Morning

• Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nature
  • Know
  • Miracles

• I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.

  

  La India
  • God
  • Love
  • Mother

• Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.

  

  Nyanaponika Thera
  • Simple
  • Common
  • Mindfulness

• I find that I don't lie about the big things in life. The things that matter. And about me. While I'm talking about myself, I rarely lie: I know who I am, my level of talent, that I'm not the most versatile filmmaker, the person I am. I don't lie about myself because I don't lie to myself.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Lie

• As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

  

  Nursultan Nazarbayev
  • Today
  • Community
  • Reason

• I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • World
  • Feels
  • Humans

• He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Lying
  • Someone
  • Dresses