Quote by Hermann Broch
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to adva

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

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Whats important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone. – Hermann Broch

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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. – Ezra Pound

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Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. – Edward Dahlberg

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The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate societys logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. – Cynthia Ozick

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Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? – Isadora Duncan

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