#only

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#destruction #ecstasy #frenzy #living #only

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

— Walter Benjamin

#judgments #matter #only #opinions #private

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#flashes #image #instant #never #only

The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so. ↗

— Tony Bennett

#audience #because #energy #got #great

I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy. ↗

— Julie Benz

#fancy #i #knew #nothing #only

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#being #black #culture #full #growing

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. ↗

— Alban Berg

#also #composers #disciples #enthusiasm #feeling

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. ↗

— John Berger

#dwelling #home #hostile #human #language

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#capitalism #democratic #democratic society #economy #example

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#creature #endowed #existence #homo #homo sapiens