Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch
Hermann Brochwas a 20th-century Austrian writer, considered one of the major Modernists...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 November 1886
CountryGermany
hate men wish
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
lying hatred strive
While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .
men style individual
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, for his autonomy presupposes the resolution and disintegration of all system into its individual elements; such a man is liberated from values and from style, and can be influenced only by the irrational.
world gone madness
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
art evil negative
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.
soul impression deceased
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.
sea form live-by
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.