Philosophy Quote by Walter Benjamin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”

“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”

“Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.”

“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”

“Free your mind from routine, keep your brain somewhere else”

“Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!”

“Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.”

“There’s something only those born and raised in a seaside town can understand, something indecipherable to others. Only we have this constant dialogue with this dimension rooted in our souls. The other, liquid half of the world, always there, reminding us, at every moment, of the possibility of an elsewhere.”

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”