In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.
Walter BenjaminThe construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
Walter BenjaminThe more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.
Walter BenjaminNot to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city - as one loses oneself in a forest - that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.
Walter Benjamin