Hermann Broch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
-- Hermann Broch

#Sea #Form #Live By
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.
-- Hermann Broch

#Soul #Impression #Deceased
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
-- Hermann Broch

#Gone #World #Madness
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 Broch

#Men #Style #Individual
While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .
-- Hermann Broch

#Lying #Hatred #Strive
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.
-- Hermann Broch

#Art #Evil #Criminals
What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
-- Hermann Broch

#People #Promise #Important
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
-- Hermann Broch

#Hate #Men #Wish
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
-- Hermann Broch

#Hate #Men #Glasses
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 Broch

#Believe #Men #Reality
Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?
-- Hermann Broch

#Mad #Insane #Gone

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