--- title: "3 Irrational Quotes By Hermann Broch" description: "3 Irrational quotes by Hermann Broch. Plus more from Hermann Broch and more Irrational sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8df/hermann-broch-16029_crazy_the-techniques-of-kitsch-which-are-based_866641.png" --- > [The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/the-techniques-of-kitsch-which-are-based-on-imitation-are-rational/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8df/hermann-broch-16029_crazy_the-techniques-of-kitsch-which-are-based_866641.png) > [The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/the-man-who-is-thus-outside-the-confines-of-every-value-combination/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8d/hermann-broch-16029_autonomy_the-man-who-is-thus-outside-the-confines_1738774.png) > [“the irrational invalidates any meaning attached to it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/the-irrational-invalidates-any-meaning-attached-to-it/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f77/hermann-broch-16029_irrational_the-irrational-invalidates-any-meaning-a_1829485.png) ## Other authors on Irrational - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-ayn-rand-15943.jpg) Ayn Rand 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/ayn-rand/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-erich-fromm-33632.jpg) Erich Fromm 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/erich-fromm/) - [Aristotle 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/aristotle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-ellis-10499.jpg) Albert Ellis 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/albert-ellis/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-dan-ariely-26126.jpg) Dan Ariely 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/dan-ariely/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-karl-popper-55250.jpg) Karl Popper 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/karl-popper/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-christopher-hitchens-23938.jpg) Christopher Hitchens 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/christopher-hitchens/) ## More by Hermann Broch > [“IN the year 1888 Herr von Pasenow was seventy, and there were people who felt an extraordinary and inexplicable repulsion when they saw him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/in-the-year-1888-herr-von-pasenow-was-seventy-and-there-were-people/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) > [“Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/children-have-a-more-restricted-and-yet-a-more-intense-feeling-for/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) > [The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/the-world-has-always-gone-through-periods-of-madness-so-as-to-advance/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) > [“Orpheus chose to be the leader of mankind. Ah, not even Orpheus had attained such a goal, not even his immortal greatness had justified…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/orpheus-chose-to-be-the-leader-of-mankind-ah-not-even-orpheus-had/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) > [A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/a-kitsch-novel-describes-the-world-not-as-it-really-is-but-as-it-is/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) > [Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/are-we-then-insane-because-we-have-not-gone-mad/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) > [“… for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/for-overstrong-was-the-command-to-hold-fast-to-each-smallest-particle/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/it-is-as-if-protestantism-by-clinging-to-the-scripture-wished-to/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) > [“WAS THERE STILL SOMETHING MURMURING? WAS IT still the kind murmuring of Plotius, protecting and kind and strong? oh, Plotius, oh, that it might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/was-there-still-something-murmuring-was-it-still-the-kind-murmuring/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/it-is-always-he-unfortunate-wretch-who-assumes-the-r-le-of/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) > [“Driven by that extraordinary oppression which falls on every human being when, childhood over, he begins to divine that he is fated to go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/driven-by-that-extraordinary-oppression-which-falls-on-every-human/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) > [The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/the-techniques-of-kitsch-which-are-based-on-imitation-are-rational/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) > [“A man who sacrifices himself must be a decent chap.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/a-man-who-sacrifices-himself-must-be-a-decent-chap/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) > [Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/kitsch-tends-to-wallow-in-beauty-its-shortcoming-is-not-aesthetic-but/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) > [Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-broch/romanticism-is-the-mother-of-kitsch-and-that-there-are-moments-when/) [Hermann Broch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-broch/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/irrational/hermann-broch/#itemlist", "name": "3 Irrational Quotes By Hermann Broch", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; 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