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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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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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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I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. – Charles Baudelaire

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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. – Michel Foucault

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. – Allen Ginsberg

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Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. – Henry Miller

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