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One Quotes by Robert Musil
- 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…
- 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…
- Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that person and…
- One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
- The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is…
- 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…
- The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.
- And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse of how it…
- The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however…
- We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's…
- Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.
- I am not only convinced that what I say is false, but also that what one might say against it is false. Despite this, one…
- 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 ever-recurring sameness of…
- One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.
- ...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…
- 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…
- There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one 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,…
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