Walter Benjamin Quote

A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at least to detach it from the background of universal delusion, is triumphing almost everywhere.


Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing (ed. Schocken, 1986)


A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at...

A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at...

A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at...

A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at...