Sea Quote by Hermann Broch

“Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.” quote by Hermann Broch — Download Open image

“Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.”

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“IN the year 1888 Herr von Pasenow was seventy, and there were people who felt an extraordinary and inexplicable repulsion when they saw him…

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

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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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“Orpheus chose to be the leader of mankind. Ah, not even Orpheus had attained such a goal, not even his immortal greatness had justified such vain and presumptuous dreams of grandeur, such flagrant overestimation of poetry! Certainly many instances of earthly beauty--a song, the twilit sea, the tone of the lyre, the voice of a boy, a verse, a statue,…

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

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

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“… for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to…

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“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 has fallen silent, a world where only things speak dumbly, a world delivered over to the silence and ruthlessness of the Absolute, - and in his fear of God the Protestant has realized that it is…

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“WAS THERE STILL SOMETHING MURMURING? WAS IT still the kind murmuring of Plotius, protecting and kind and strong? oh, Plotius, oh, that it might endure, oh, that it might endure murmuringly, quiet and quieting, welling up from the unfathomable depths within and without, now that the labor was over, now that the labor sufficed, now that nothing need follow, oh,…

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“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…

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“Driven by that extraordinary oppression which falls on every human being when, childhood over, he begins to divine that he is fated to go on in isolation and unaided towards his own death; driven by this extraordinary oppression, which may with justice be called a fear of God, man looks round him for a companion hand in hand with whom…

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The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has…

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For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow…

Alfred North Whitehead

Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire…

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Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as…

John D. Voelker

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Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a…

Carl Jung

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I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from…

Sara Teasdale

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I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.

Quentin Blake

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“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with…

William Shakespeare

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One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of…

John C. Reilly

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Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and…

John Bytheway

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The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was…

Daniel J. Boorstin

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look…

Ralph Waldo Emerson