Robert Musil Quotes

• Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

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  Hands, Clothes, Stupidity

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.284, University of Chicago Press

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• 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.

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  Reality, Choices, World

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.292, Pan Macmillan

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• One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

  Robert Musil

  Doe

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• If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

  Robert Musil

  Reality, Possibility, Ifs

  Robert Musil (2017). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• La diferencia entre una persona sana y una enferma mental es que la sana tiene todas las enfermedades mentales y la enferma mental sólo una.

  Robert Musil

  Differences, Healthy, Facts

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• Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

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  Skins, Form, Surface

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.245, Pan Macmillan

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• ...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet.

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  Religious, Feet, People

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

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• Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

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  Progress, Would Be, Wonderful

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• Cada persona es un cementerio de sus pensamientos. Son más bellos para nosotros en el momento de su nacimiento; más tarde podemos sentir a menudo un profundo dolor porque nos dejan indiferentes allí donde antes nos encantaron.

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  Beautiful, Pain, Birth

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• 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.

  Robert Musil

  Thinking, Events

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• ... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner.

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  Children, Ocean, Bridges

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• Life is to blame for everything.

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  Blame, Life Is

  Robert Musil (2012). “Posthumous Papers of a Living Author”, p.45, Archipelago

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• Capa a capa, el arte desnuda la vida.

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  Art, Layers

  Robert Musil (2012). “Posthumous Papers of a Living Author”, p.44, Archipelago

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• For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

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  Fuego, Alma, Chispas

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

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• Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

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  Army, People, World

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

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  Age, Baseness, Conform

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• We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul.

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  Soul, Littles, Matter

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.131, University of Chicago Press

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• ... we engage in politics because we don't know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way we go about it. Our parties exist from a fear of theory. The voter fears that one idea can always be contradicted by another. Therefore the parties reciprocally defend themselves against the few old ideas they have inherited. They don't live from what they promise, but from frustrating the promises of others. This is their silent community of interests.

  Robert Musil

  Party, Ideas, Community

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Art, Expression

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• True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

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  People, Decision, True And False

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.891, Pan Macmillan

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• ¿No sabes que toda vida perfecta sería el fin del arte?

  Robert Musil

  Art, Mean, Perfect

  "The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic".

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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.

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  Fall, Learning, Pockets

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.535, Pan Macmillan

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• ... 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.

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  Numbers, People, Temptation

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.274, University of Chicago Press

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• Toda palabra quiere ser tomada al pie de la letra, de lo contrario se convierte en mentira. Pero no hay que tomar ninguna palabra al pie de la letra, si no el mundo se convierte en un manicomio.

  Robert Musil

  Lying, Taken, Decay

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• 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

  Men, Wicked, Earth

  Robert Musil (1961). “The Man Without Qualities”

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