Quotes by : Robert Musil

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

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

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 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....

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

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....