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Hermann Broch Quotes: 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
         

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


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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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The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.



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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



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



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



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