The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
Quotations by Walter Benjamin

Other quotes and quotations :

• The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. Dorothea Lange
• Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. Walter Benjamin
• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. Walter Benjamin
• To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. Walter Benjamin
• Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. Walter Benjamin
• Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. Walter Benjamin
• The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. Walter Benjamin
• The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. Walter Benjamin
• Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. Walter Benjamin