Robert Musil Quotes

We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly ...

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to u...

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the w...

What is it you do, then? I'll tell you: You leave out whatever doesn't suit you. As the author himse...

And so the mind or spirit is the great opportunist, itself impossible to pin down, take hold of, any...

For if one is partly insane, one is also, juridically, partly sane, and if one is partly sane one is...

We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between ...

A man going quietly about his business all day long expends far more muscular energy than an athlete...

For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of im...

Even Diotima and Amheim were shy of using it without a modifier, for it is still possible to speak o...

…. by the time they have reached the middle of their life’s journey, few people remember how they ha...

The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge ...

And after all, if stupidity did not, when seen from within, look so exactly like talent as to be mis...

For him morality was neither conformism nor philosophic wisdom, but living the infinite fullness of ...

Es gibt immer einen Punkt dabei, wo man nicht mehr weiß, ob man lügt oder ob das, was man erfunden h...

His life was focused on each single day. For him each night meant a void, a grave, extinction. The c...