Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. W
  4. Walter Benjamin
  5. Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But ...

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them

Walter Benjamin
Self, Order, World
Walter Benjamin (1977). “The origin of German tragic drama”, New Left Books
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them