Quotes About Benjamin

Vol. 4: Complete Poems in English, Milton

Drink does not drown Care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

But why, my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many? Good men, and they are the only persons who are worth considering, will think of these things truly as they happened.

You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.

Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

Where the presence of truth should be possible, it can be possible solely under the condition of the recognition of myth--that is, the recognition of its crushing indifference to truth.

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

Benjamin Zephaniah

An anecdote in which Kant captures himself in pithy fashion: [Kant's] Famulus, a theologian who was unable to connect philosophy to theology, once asked Kant for advice as to what he should read on the subject. Kant: Read travel literature. Famulus: In dogmatic philosophy, there are things I do not understand. Kant: Read travel literature. Walter Benjamin, 'Unknown Anecdotes about Kant', GS

The soundness of the best investments must rest not upon legal rights or remedies but upon ample financial capacity of the enterprise.

implied that "at normal levels of the market" the investor should be able to obtain an  initial  dividend  return  of  between  31?2%  and  41?2%  on  his  stock purchases, to which should be added a steady increase in underly- ing value (and in the "normal market price") of a representative

True that Benjamin used a communist language in the last years of his life, so he looks different to us now. But that's because he died in 1940. Those last years were the ones in which communist language regained authority--seen as necessary to fight fascism (identified as The Enemy). Had Benjamin lived as long as Adorno he would have become as a-social, as disillusioned with left as Adorno did.

The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away.

Drosnin's 'The Bible Code' would hardly be worth mentioning were it not such a smash hit.

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.

We love you, our angel, and always will," Papa said and patted me on the back. I knew enough of my Bible to realize why I had overheard, more than once, some of our Bowes Lyon relations refer to David and me as "the Benjamins." After all, Benjamin was the dearly beloved and youngest of his father's and Rachel's children and had many older half brothers.

I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.

There's an amazing documentary, 'The Day After Trinity,' which is crazy good.

A ram comes always as an astonishment. Do you know what a ram is, Benjamin? R-A-M. A random act of menschlichkeit.

Benjamin Franklin, the American statesman and polymath, knew that a balanced, liberal education for all was essential for the proper flourishing of the American dream.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

I normally try to ignore presidential tweets.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.