Robert Musil
Robert Musil
Robert Musilwas an Austrian philosophical writer. His unfinished novel The Man Without Qualitiesis generally considered to be one of the most important and influential modernist novels...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth6 November 1880
CountryAustria
reality choices world
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.
doe
One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
skins surface form
Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.
thinking events
The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.
reality possibility ifs
If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.
progress would-be wonderful
Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.
numbers people temptation
... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.
feelings intellectual connections
Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.
differences healthy facts
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.
fall learning crystals
The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.
sacrifice endure impression
Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.
reality awakening would-be
It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.
luxury today reason
Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.
thinking feelings limits
With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit.