The best Quotes by Walter Benjamin

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

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.

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".

Berlin will live and the Wall will fall!

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.

Berlin - the greatest cultural extravaganza that one could imagine.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

"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?"

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

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

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

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

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?

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!

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

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

Your laugh is the reason your parents never tickled you growing up.

Jimmy has the work ethic of an immigrant and the personal wealth of the country that immigrant had to flee.

If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They are here to help.