Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming Quotes

“It’s not that I don’t understand why a person has to die, but rather, I don’t understand why a person has to live, Baron Béla Wenckheim pondered”
― László Krasznahorkai, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

“every human culture is created by fear,”
― László Krasznahorkai, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

“to be Hungarian is not to belong to a people, but instead it’s an illness, an incurable, frightening disease, a misfortune of epidemic proportions that could overcome every single observer with nausea,”
― László Krasznahorkai, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

“at this point, we must refocus our attention on this, as fear is what defines human existence,
...you will see that fear is the deepest element that can be grasped in this organic and inorganic world, and there’s nothing else other than fear, because nothing else bears within it such dreadful strength”
― László Krasznahorkai, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

“empirical evidence is precisely that which is sacred in so-called scientific thought, and by these means—there’s no point in denying it—we can go far, but at the same time, by following this method, we greatly distance ourselves from the problem, because it’s so, but so manifest that empirical proof itself is something that no one has ever heretofore truly dealt with, namely, no one has ever wished genuinely to confront the deeply problematic nature of empirical verification as such, because whoever did this went mad, or appeared to be a pure dilettante,”
― László Krasznahorkai, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

“...we must never lose sight of that gaze with which we look at things.”
― László Krasznahorkai, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

“it’s precisely the infinite that casts light upon how the brain thinks, and how clever it is in showing us something that seems real when it’s merely an abstraction, namely that brain introduced or employed to great effect those methods of distortion, that dislocation”
― László Krasznahorkai, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming