Quotes by : Robert Musil

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

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

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

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.....

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

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....

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

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