Search results for “WALTER BENJAMIN”
The Labyrinth of Consciousness: Walter Benjamin on Dreams and the Undertow of the Mind
Searching for the byway to the unconscious.
Walter Benjamin on the Key Qualities of the Successful Person and How to Master the Art of Asking for What You Want
“And please believe me when I tell you: successful people are never sore losers.”
The Writer’s Technique in Thirteen Theses: Walter Benjamin’s Timeless Advice on Writing
“The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.”
The Source of Self-Regard: Toni Morrison on Wisdom in the Age of Information
“We move from data to information to knowledge to wisdom. And separating one from the other… knowing the limitations and the danger of exercising one without the others, while respecting each category of intelligence, is generally what serious education is about.”
How the Bit Was Born: Claude Shannon and the Invention of Information
“Information is what our world runs on: the blood and the fuel, the vital principle … transforming every branch of knowledge.”
Walter Benjamin on Finding Wisdom in the Age of Information and Storytelling as the Antidote to Death by News
“The value of information does not survive the moment in which it was new. It lives only at that moment; it has to surrender to it completely and explain itself to it without losing any time. A story is different. It does not expend itself. It preserves and concentrates its strength and is capable of releasing it even after a long time.”
How to Write Fat Books: Walter Benjamin’s Principles of the Weighty Tome
A seven-point blueprint to the dark arts of filling pages.
In Defense of Boredom: 200 Years of Ideas on the Virtues of Not-Doing from Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds
Bertrand Russell, Søren Kierkegaard, Andrei Tarkovsky, Susan Sontag, Adam Phillips, Renata Adler, and more.
The Conscience of Words: Susan Sontag on the Wisdom of Literature, the Danger of Opinions, and the Writer’s Task
“A writer ought not to be an opinion-machine… The job of the writer is to make us see the world as it is, full of many different claims and parts and experiences.”
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