Walter Benjamin Quotes

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

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• I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Life
  • God
  • Family

• All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Life
  • Progress
  • Human

• When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Fight
  • Against

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Stock

• The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Politics
  • Foundation

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• Few things are as essential as education.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Education
  • Things
  • Few

• For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Power
  • Perfect

• One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Reading

• I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Often

• There, they tell me to wear the veil. Here, they are telling me to put my hips in a little girl's skirt, and I am this lovely full woman. You've got this Ph.D. and you're worrying, 'Am I skinny enough?'

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Woman
  • Enough
  • Full

• The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
  • Public
  • Frustrated

• The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Best
  • Baseball
  • Homework

• My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Look
  • Modern
  • Type

• If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'

  

  Nancy Greene
  • Pure
  • Syrup
  • Maple

• Even though I wrote 'The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family,' my life is as chaotic as most people's.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Problem

• Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Reality
  • Love Is
  • Deviate

• You know in fairness Gary [Johnson] and I have not agreed on a number of substantive issues in this campaign, tax policy, we've had some influence on each other, I think I've had some influence on him, on constructive engagement around the world, he's had some influence on me in criminal justice reform issues.

  

  William Weld
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Justice

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Process