Walter Benjamin Quotes
I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.
Benjamin, Walter. "Agesilaus Santander (Second Version)." Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2: 1927-1934. Edited by Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith, translated by Rodney Livingstone et al., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999, p. 717.
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish mysticism, Benjamin made enduring and influential contributions to aesthetic theory, literary criticism, and historical materialism. He was associated with the Frankfurt School, and also maintained formative friendships with thinkers such as playwright Bertolt Brecht and Kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem. He was also related to German political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt through her first marriage to Benjamin's cousin Günther Anders.
