Robert Musil Quotes


Layer by layer art strips life bare. Robert Musil Art 93
On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room. Robert Musil Axis 83
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one. Robert Musil Between 79
Es gibt immer einen Punkt dabei wo man nicht mehr wei ob man lgt oder ob das was man erfunden hat wahrer ist als man selber. Robert Musil Lying 76
Life is to blame for everything. Robert Musil Blame 72
A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. Robert Musil Average 67
The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again. Robert Musil Again 59
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 Army 51
It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it! Robert Musil Uncategorized 45
It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it. Robert Musil Awakens 44
If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility. Robert Musil Uncategorized 42
Progress would be wonderful – if only it would stop. Robert Musil Progress 41
Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression. Robert Musil Ability 39
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 it to be one or the other. It is usually both. Robert Musil Bad 35
Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art? Robert Musil Uncategorized 30
Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need. Robert Musil Against 29
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 being loved. Only thus could she be defined. Robert Musil beauty 26
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture. Robert Musil Become 25
All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man! Robert Musil Alone 23

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