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Top 25 Hermann Broch Quotes (2025 Update)

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

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

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “Kitsch is certainly not “bad art,” it forms its own closed system.”

2. “Kitsch is certainly not “bad art,” it forms its own closed system.”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Hermann Broch Quote: “The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the “good” but the “beautiful.””

4. “The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the “good” but the “beautiful.””

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.”

5. “The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.”

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

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them.”

7. “Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them.”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty – its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical.”

8. “Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty – its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical.”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.”

9. “Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?”

10. “Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “What’s important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.”

11. “What’s important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “Do thyself no harm! for we are all here!”

12. “Do thyself no harm! for we are all here!”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism.”

13. “Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism.”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “No one can see another in the darkness, Esch, and that cloudless clarity of yours is only a dream. You know that I cannot keep you beside me, much as you fear your loneliness. We are a lost generation. I too can only go about my business.”

14. “No one can see another in the darkness, Esch, and that cloudless clarity of yours is only a dream. You know that I cannot keep you beside me, much as you fear your loneliness. We are a lost generation. I too can only go about my business.”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.”

15. “The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be...”

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

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the ‘age of kitsch.’”

17. “If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the ‘age of kitsch.’”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.”

18. “You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “A man who sacrifices himself must be a decent chap.”

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

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “As she wanders along the river like this, one hand on her hip and the other clutching a mark to defray her expenses, she is in well-known country.”

20. “As she wanders along the river like this, one hand on her hip and the other clutching a mark to defray her expenses, she is in well-known country.”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “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.”

21. “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: “This was both startling and comforting, and when the eye combined these separate things into a unity so strange, past all disjoining, one was curiously reminded of something, transposed into some mode that lay beyond convention far back in childhood, and the unsolved riddle was like a sign that had emerged from the sea of memory.”

22. “This was both startling and comforting, and when the eye combined these separate things into a unity so strange, past all disjoining, one was curiously reminded of something, transposed into some mode that lay beyond convention far back in childhood, and the unsolved riddle was like a sign that had emerged from the sea of memory.”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “Only falsehood wins renown, not understanding!”

23. “Only falsehood wins renown, not understanding!”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “Incapable of communicating himself to others, incapable of breaking out of his isolation, doomed to remain the mere actor of his life, the deputy of his own ego – all that any human being can know of another is a mere symbol, a symbol of an ego that remains beyond our grasp, possessing no more value than that of a symbol; and all that can be told is the symbol of a symbol, a symbol at a second, third, nth remove, asking for representation in the true double sense of the word.”

24. “Incapable of communicating himself to others, incapable of breaking out of his isolation, doomed to remain the mere actor of his life, the deputy of his own ego – all that any human being can know of another is a mere symbol, a symbol of an ego that remains beyond our grasp, possessing no more value than that of a symbol; and all that can be told is the symbol of a symbol, a symbol at a second, third, nth remove, asking for representation in the true double sense of the word.”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Hermann Broch Quote: “Young man, until you know that all names are false you know nothing; not even the clothes on your body are what they seem to be.”

26. “Young man, until you know that all names are false you know nothing; not even the clothes on your body are what they seem to be.”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “A gift weighed down with obligations is scarcely a gift.”

27. “A gift weighed down with obligations is scarcely a gift.”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “Greater than the earth is light, greater than man is the earth, and man’s existence avails him nothing until he breathes his native air, returning to the earth, through earth returning to the light, an earthly being receiving the light on earth, received in turn by the light only through earth, earth changing to light. And never was the earth nearer the heart of light, nor light closer to the earth than in the approaching dusk at the two boundaries of night.”

28. “Greater than the earth is light, greater than man is the earth, and man’s existence avails him nothing until he breathes his native air, returning to the earth, through earth returning to the light, an earthly being receiving the light on earth, received in turn by the light only through earth, earth changing to light. And never was the earth nearer the heart of light, nor light closer to the earth than in the approaching dusk at the two boundaries of night.”

— Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch Quote: “Flight, oh, flight! oh, dusk, the hour of poetry. For poetry was contemplative waiting in the twilight, poetry was the night-foreboding abyss, was lingering on the threshold, was at once participation and loneliness, was intermingling and the fear of intermingling, unwanton in intermingling, as unwanton as the dream of the slumbering herds and yet the fear of wantoness; oh, poetry was anticipation but not quite departure, yet it was an enduring farewell.”

29. “Flight, oh, flight! oh, dusk, the hour of poetry. For poetry was contemplative waiting in the twilight, poetry was the night-foreboding abyss, was lingering on the threshold, was at once participation and loneliness, was intermingling and the fear of intermingling, unwanton in intermingling, as unwanton as the dream of the slumbering herds and yet the fear of wantoness; oh, poetry was anticipation but not quite departure, yet it was an enduring farewell.”

— Hermann Broch

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