Quote by Robert Musil

“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

“He was in that familiar state - not that the occasion mattered to seriously to him -- of incoherent ideas spreading outward without a…

— Robert Musil

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

— Robert Musil