Quote Explained: Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.

In the world’s structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.

Philosopher and cultural critic

· Germany

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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Walter Benjamin

Philosopher and cultural critic

· Germany

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

Walter Benjamin

Philosopher and cultural critic

· Germany

The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.

Walter Benjamin

Philosopher and cultural critic

· Germany

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Walter Benjamin

Philosopher and cultural critic

· Germany

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The distracted person, too, can form habits.

Walter Benjamin

Philosopher and cultural critic

· Germany

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Literature tells very little to those who understand it.

Walter Benjamin

Philosopher and cultural critic

· Germany

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps – his tastes, his interest, his habits.

Walter Benjamin

Philosopher and cultural critic

· Germany

Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.

In the world’s structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

The distracted person, too, can form habits.

Literature tells very little to those who understand it.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps – his tastes, his interest, his habits.

Life has to flow. But if you start worrying about it, you block time.

Change your way of thinking, change your way of doing, change your way of choosing.

You think, you don’t just speak. The lines come off the thoughts.

The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.

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