Hermann Broch

“Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a tool for abstraction.”

“The final hour of brotherhood is not in the daylight but in the darkness.”

“Kitsch is the translation of the stupidity of the bourgeois soul into the language of art.”

“The real enemy of the human being is abstraction.”

“Myth is the archetype of every perception of life.”

“The sole reason for a novel to exist is to say what only the novel can say.”

“The essence of the modern is the disintegration of every value.”

“No one can escape his time.”

“Every epoch has its own myth.”

“The logical is the ethical.”

“Only the work of art itself can lift us out of the terror of loneliness.”

“Literature is always a kind of prayer.”

“The path to the eternal is through the absolutely personal.”

“Those who live in a state of grace go in a straight line.”

“The true revolutionary is the one who can change himself.”

“The world is a system of values.”

“Art is the becoming-conscious of the world.”