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Hermann Broch quotes

Deutsch Writer November 1, 1886 – May 30, 1951

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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 ask the one who loves. 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 embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times. Hermann Broch
What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone. Hermann Broch
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, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system. Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch quote: "Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of..."
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. Hermann Broch
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 in their humanness. Hermann Broch
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 feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head. Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch quote: "in the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe..."
...in the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward. Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch quote: "The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to..."
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. Hermann Broch

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