Walter Benjamin Quote

The enslavement of language in prattle is joined by the enslavement of things in folly almost as its inevitable consequence.


"On Language as Such and on the Language of Man" (1916), translated by E. Jephcott, in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 1 (1996), p. 72


The enslavement of language in prattle is joined by the enslavement of things in folly almost as its inevitable consequence.

The enslavement of language in prattle is joined by the enslavement of things in folly almost as its inevitable consequence.

The enslavement of language in prattle is joined by the enslavement of things in folly almost as its inevitable consequence.

The enslavement of language in prattle is joined by the enslavement of things in folly almost as its inevitable consequence.