More From Walter Benjamin
- "Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred."
- "The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing."
- "The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
More In Wisdom
- "The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."― Dwight D. Eisenhower
- "It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."― Arthur Conan Doyle
- "The beginning of wisdom is to desire it."― Solomon Ibn Gabirol