Walter Benjamin

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

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

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.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

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.