“For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“In earlier times, one had an easier conscience about being a person than one does today. People were like cornstalks in a… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was--to… — 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
“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
Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes.… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“At that moment he didn’t like mankind, the grown-ups, the adults. He never liked them when it was dark. At such times… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth; later we… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression. — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“The one thing that remains permanently behind the times, especially because it prides itself on its steadfastness, is the human heart, most… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“…. by the time they have reached the middle of their life’s journey, few people remember how they have managed to arrive… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it. — 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
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