It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“What is it you do, then? I'll tell you: You leave out whatever doesn't suit you. As the author himself has done… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I also believe that few people remain completely untouched by the thought that instead of the life they lead there might also… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“For if one is partly insane, one is also, juridically, partly sane, and if one is partly sane one is at least… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing. — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“A thrilling sense of having been chosen for something is the best and the only certain thing in one whose glance surveys… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“For him morality was neither conformism nor philosophic wisdom, but living the infinite fullness of possibilities. He believed in morality’s capacity for… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“There were moments when life at school became a matter of utter indifference to him. Then the putty of his everyday concerns… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“A man matters, his experiences matter, but in a city, where experiences come by the thousands, we can no longer relate them… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“His life was focused on each single day. For him each night meant a void, a grave, extinction. The capacity to lay… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“His extraordinary indifference to the life snapping at the bait is matched by the risk he runs of doing utterly eccentric things.… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“Science is possible only where situations repeat themselves, or where you have some control over them, and where do you have more… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, thanks to their education in politics and economics, they are said to be different. But even at that time, as one… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“If a person is plagued by religious doubts,as many are in their youth, he takes to persecuting unbelievers; if troubled by love,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“he had to stand by while there proliferated in his own house such concepts as “the art of living thought” “the graph… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“Everything we feel and do is somehow oriented "lifeward," and the least deviation away from this direction toward something beyond is difficult or alarming.… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“He was in that familiar state - not that the occasion mattered to seriously to him -- of incoherent ideas spreading outward without a… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“What is it you do, then? I'll tell you: You leave out whatever doesn't suit you. As the author himself has done before you.… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“Ein Mann, der die Wahrheit will, wird Gelehrter; ein Mann, der seine Subjektivität spielen lassen will, wird vielleicht Schriftsteller; was aber soll ein Mann… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“All the knowledge that has led our species from wearing animal skins to people flying, complete with proofs, would fill a handful of reference… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I also believe that few people remain completely untouched by the thought that instead of the life they lead there might also be another,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“His appearance gives no clue to what his profession might be, and yet he doesn't look like a man without a profession either. Consider… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
