All Robert Musil Quotes
- Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains. Afford
- 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,… Event
- A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage. Angry
- 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,… All
- An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will engage… Action
- ...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
- 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… Been
- [...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit. Add
- There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance… Appearance
- 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,… Annual
- 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… Agreement
- 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… Axis
- Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need. Clearly