Home / Quotes / Quote by Walter Benjamin

Quote by Walter Benjamin

“In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.”

Book:Selected Writings: 1935-1938

Work

Selected Writings: 1935-1938

This book compiles a selection of works from the specified time period, showcasing the author's literary output during that era. more

Author

Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin, born on July 15, 1892, and died on September 26, 1940, was a prominent German literary critic whose works profoundly influenced 20th-century literary criticism and cultural theory. more

“Our reading can affect our imaginations in ways of which we are not consciously aware. It is quite common...to re-read something after a gap of many years and realize that it has been there all along, without any memory of where it was first encountered. But it may have been working away all the time.”

Way Years Firsts May Has Beens Reading Realizing Imagination Memories Common Gaps

Author:Tom Shippey

“The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.”

Wells Two Stories Light Age Speak Water Dark Accepting One Thing Youth Mirrors Old Age Multitudes Microscopes Drop Of Water Youth And Old Age Opaque

Book:Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

Source: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.”

Looks I Can Seems Joy Fun Enjoy Sides Sadness Sad Humorous Sadness Of Life Sadness And Love

Book:My Life and Times

Source: My Life and Times

“Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos.”

Way Humans Made Remember Form Desire Given Emotion Return Promise Various Storytelling Taboo Human Emotions

Book:Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

Source: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is), and therefore, every myth becomes the father of innumerable truths on the abstract level.”

Reality Father Levels Truth Is Flow Myth Abstract

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.”

Men Real Reality Knowing Depends Myth Rationality Metaphysical Totality

Author:Clyde S. Kilby

“Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing failings, healing wounds, engendering hope, strengthening our sense of community.”

Needs Humans Heart Community Healing Failing Tradition Wounds Passing Passings Storytelling Being Human Strengthening Basic Needs Confessing

Book:A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

Source: A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

Quote by Walter Benjamin

Work

Author

You May Also Like