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;… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“IN the year 1888 Herr von Pasenow was seventy, and there were people who felt an extraordinary and inexplicable repulsion when they saw him… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.” — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“Orpheus chose to be the leader of mankind. Ah, not even Orpheus had attained such a goal, not even his immortal greatness had justified… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be. — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“… for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“It is as if Protestantism by clinging to the Scripture wished to preserve the last faint echoes of God’s Word in a world that… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“WAS THERE STILL SOMETHING MURMURING? WAS IT still the kind murmuring of Plotius, protecting and kind and strong? oh, Plotius, oh, that it might… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“it is always he, unfortunate wretch, who assumes the rôle of executioner in the process of value-disintegration, and on the day when the trumpets… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“Driven by that extraordinary oppression which falls on every human being when, childhood over, he begins to divine that he is fated to go… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
