3 December 2020 Walter Benjamin Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
3 December 2020 Walter Benjamin The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
3 December 2020 Walter Benjamin The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Walter Benjamin It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
3 December 2020 Walter Benjamin Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
3 December 2020 Walter Benjamin The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
