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Only a thoughtless observer can deny that correspondences come into play between the world of modern technology and the archaic symbol-world of mythology.

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As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

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In the fields with which we are concerned knowledge exists only in lightning flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterwards.

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The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

Born: July 15, 1892
Died: September 26, 1940 (aged 48)
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