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But how do I get to having to write a book? ... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!
— Robert Musil
Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.
— 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
And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.
— Robert Musil
The novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.
— Robert Musil
There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument
— Robert Musil
He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.
— Robert Musil
A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.
— Robert Musil
We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul,
— Robert Musil
Man is indisputably endowed with reason; the problem is only how he uses his reason in the company of others.
— Robert Musil
Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.
— Robert Musil
True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.
— Robert Musil
Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.
— Lorrie Moore
All professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods.
— Robert Musil
It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!
— Robert Musil
There is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.
— Robert Musil
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
— Robert Musil
I dont believe in the Devil, but if I did I should think of him as the trainer who drives Heaven to break its own records.
— Robert Musil
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The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.
— Robert Musil
One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
— Robert Musil
Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.
— Robert Musil
Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.
— Robert Musil
Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.
— Robert Musil
It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.
— Robert Musil
Life is to blame for everything.
— Robert Musil
Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can't afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.
— Robert Musil
It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.
— Robert Musil
A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.
— Italo Svevo
