Quotes by : Robert Musil

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

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

One does what one is one becomes what one does.

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

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

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

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

Such elderly people were in the habit of saying that he simply had no will-power but it might just as....

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

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