"One does what one is; one becomes what…" — Robert Musil
"One does what one is; one becomes what one does."
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63 Quotes by Robert Musil
Robert Musil has 63 quotes on this site.
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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…
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That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when…
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The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has…
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Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other…
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Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance…
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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…
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True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without…
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It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only…
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A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the…
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For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must…
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And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have…
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
— Saint Augustine
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
— Paul Auster
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
— Teresa of Avila
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I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people…
— David Axelrod
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise…
— Sai Baba
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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
— Charles Babbage
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In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from…
— Charles Babbage
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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