Hermann Broch Quotes
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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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Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.
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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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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,…
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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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Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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