“IN the year 1888 Herr von Pasenow was seventy, and there were people who felt an extraordinary and inexplicable repulsion when they… — Hermann Broch Old man Copy Share Image
“Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.” — Hermann Broch Children 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 Gone 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… — Hermann Broch Art 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 Books Copy Share Image
“… for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance,… — Hermann Broch Death 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… — Hermann Broch Fear 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… — 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… — 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… — Hermann Broch Death 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… — Hermann Broch Crazy Copy Share Image
Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical — Hermann Broch Aesthetic Copy Share Image
Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot… — Hermann Broch Children Copy Share Image
“...he knew of the innermost danger of all artists, he knew the utter loneliness of the man destined to be an artist,… — Hermann Broch Art Copy Share Image
The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful." — Hermann Broch Beautiful Copy Share Image
Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system. — Hermann Broch Art Copy Share Image
“It is almost a matter of no account how far Marguerite will penetrate, whether she will ever be brought back or whether… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the… — Hermann Broch Feet Copy Share Image
The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is… — Hermann Broch Autonomy Copy Share Image
The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by… — Hermann Broch Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“As she wanders along the river like this, one hand on her hip and the other clutching a mark to defray her… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
