The best Quotes by Walter Benjamin

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

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.

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One of the main differences between Munich and Berlin is that when thousands of people get drunk in silly clothes and start vomitting, we don't call it "Oktoberfest", we call it "Tuesday".

Felix Lobrecht

Berlin Munich Oktoberfest

Berlin will live and the Wall will fall!

Willy Brandt - 10. November 1989

German Unity Berlin 1989

Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on the field of battle.

Barack Obama

Germany Berlin

Berlin - the greatest cultural extravaganza that one could imagine.

David Bowie

Berlin

You're crazy, child, you should go to Berlin.

Franz von Suppé

Berlin

Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner."

John F. Kennedy

Freedom 1963 Berlin

People of the world - look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.

Barack Obama

History 2008 German Unity Berlin

As soon as you come into Berlin, it's over with peachiness and elegance.

Theodor Fontane

Berlin

In the face of God, all people are from Berlin.

Theodor Fontane

Berlin

These days, space is less dangerous than the streets of Berlin.

Wernher von Braun

Street Berlin Space

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

Mark Twain

Germany Berlin

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

Happiness

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life.

Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness Revenge

The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair ot not, they just get on with it.

Andrew Matthews

Life Happiness

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Gift from the Sea

Happiness

It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking: How did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it, no matter what. How did he know that?

Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness

Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence Happiness Freedom

"But don't you think," I persist, "that it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?"

Audrey Niffenegger in The Time Traveler’s Wife

Happiness Time

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

Happiness

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Character Self-Confidence

Don't let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

Patrick in 10 Things I Hate About You

Self-Confidence

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period. All right?

Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness

Dreaming Self-Confidence

Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!

Rocky Balboa in Rocky Balboa

Ambition Self-Confidence

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

Albert Einstein

Ambition Character Self-Confidence

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside, while still alive. Never surrender!

2Pac

Death Self-Confidence

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

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