Quote 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…

— Hermann Broch

“Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.”

— Hermann Broch

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

— 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…

— Hermann Broch

A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.

— Hermann Broch

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Hermann Broch

“A man who sacrifices himself must be a decent chap.”

— Hermann Broch