“It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us...” — Walter Benjamin Quote

“It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.”

“All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.”

“Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.”

“Wittgenstein wrote a comprehensive critique of the Scottish anthropologist J. G. Frazer's masterpiece "The Golden Bough" (1890), a comparative study of religion and mythology. One of Wittgenstein's main objections was that Frazer ascribes the natives he discusses with irrational beliefs for which there is no evidence: for example, that a certain ritual will make it rain. The problem is that Frazer is unable to see what the natives are actually doing. Wittgenstein states: "Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages... His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves." While Frazer believes that the natives' actions are based on mistaken beliefs about causal relationships, Wittgenstein suggests that they are not based on such beliefs at all.”

“Hope follows me wherever I go,”