Quote by Hermann Broch Download Open image ““the irrational invalidates any meaning attached to it.”” — Hermann Broch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Look into the irrationality closely, with a determination not to respect it, and not to let it dominate you. Whenever it thrusts foolish thoughts… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The irrational is the impossible; it is that which contradicts the facts of reality; facts cannot be altered by a wish, but they can… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life. — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
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If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
“It may be laid down broadly that irrationalism, i.e. disbelief in objective fact, arises almost always from the desire to assert something for which… — Bertrand Russell 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
