Hermann Broch quotes
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“Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.”
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“No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.”
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“The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.”
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“The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast, for his autonomy presupposes the resolution and disintegration of all system into its individual elements; such a man is liberated from values and from style, and can be influenced only by the irrational.”
-- Hermann BrochSource : Hermann Broch (2011). “The Sleepwalkers”, p.887, Vintage
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“While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .”
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“The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system.”
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“What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.”
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“Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves”
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“One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head”
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“Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.”
-- Hermann BrochSource : Hermann Broch (2011). “The Sleepwalkers”, p.468, Vintage
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“Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?”
-- Hermann BrochSource : Hermann Broch (2011). “The Sleepwalkers”, p.483, Vintage
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