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
beautiful art expression
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.
religious struggle night
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism, it does seem that the naked fundamental experience itself, that primal seizure of mystic insight, stripped of religious concepts, perhaps no longer to be regarded as a religious experience at all, has undergone an immense expansion and now forms the soul of that complex irrationalism that haunts our era like a night bird lost in the dawn.
people voting democracy
That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for deciding between diverse interests, then voting, of course, can be regarded as a humane and civilized process.
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.
art layers
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
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.
age baseness conform
One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.
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.
people decision true-and-false
True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.
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.
doe
One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
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.
men average years
It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.