"The difference between a healthy person and one……" — 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 the mentally ill person has only one."
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63 Quotes by Robert Musil
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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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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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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…
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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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