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Robert Musil has 64 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't…
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That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a…
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The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the…
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Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has…
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Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between…
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If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.
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A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become…
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True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.
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It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch…
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A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of…
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One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
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For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content…
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One day I visited a guy who had made a fortune as a broker. He was sitting in his office with his…
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I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance…
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Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in…
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So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion…
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What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor,…
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[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble.] Calvin: Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "Double word score" box! Hobbes:…
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It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and…
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Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past…
— Iris Murdoch
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In one great word my breath is, that breath is for you, you is for me , is for you, everything is…
— Nkemjika
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