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"Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance."
"Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive."
"Intelligence is not always the source of knowledge but love is."
"Often morality defines our inner philosophy."
"Knowledge can be borrowed but wisdom cannot because wisdom comes from experience."
"The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning."
"Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you."
Explore more quotes by Walter Benjamin
"Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know."
"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."
"Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation."
"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."
"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."
"The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion."
"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."
"Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."
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