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... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age (Robert Musil Quotes)
... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually (Robert Musil Quotes)
... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child’s play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner (Robert Musil Quotes)
... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers (Robert Musil Quotes)
It’s not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it (Robert Musil Quotes)
Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth; later we can often sense a deep pain that they leave us indifferent where earlier they enchanted us (Robert Musil Quotes)
Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn’t take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse (Robert Musil Quotes)
On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room (Robert Musil Quotes)
And while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism, it does seem that the naked fundamental experience itself, that primal seizure of mystic insight, stripped of religious concepts, perhaps no longer to be regarded as a religious experience at all, has undergone an immense expansion and now forms the soul of that complex irrationalism that haunts our era like a night bird lost in the dawn (Robert Musil Quotes)
A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses (Robert Musil Quotes)
It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it (Robert Musil Quotes)
It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it! (Robert Musil Quotes)
It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them (Robert Musil Quotes)
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both (Robert Musil Quotes)
Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system (Robert Musil Quotes)
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one (Robert Musil Quotes)
The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again (Robert Musil Quotes)
Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together (Robert Musil Quotes)
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture (Robert Musil Quotes)
The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian... He’s bound to lose perspective (Robert Musil Quotes)
Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing (Robert Musil Quotes)
Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains (Robert Musil Quotes)
The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us (Robert Musil Quotes)
To love something as an artist... means to be shaken not by its ultimate value or lack of value, but by a side of it that suddenly opens up. Where art has value it shows things that few have seen. It’s conquering, not pacifying (Robert Musil Quotes)
... love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet (Robert Musil Quotes)
You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody’s been living for them, not even for a single hour (Robert Musil Quotes)
His answers were quite often like that. When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis. When she mentioned love, he responded with the statistical curve that indicates the automatic rise and fall in the annual birthrate. When she spoke of the great figures in art, he traced the chain of borrowings that links these figures to one another (Robert Musil Quotes)
Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement (Robert Musil Quotes)
You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I’m making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn’t that help you to come out with it? Come on now! (Robert Musil Quotes)
Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage (Robert Musil Quotes)