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Robert Musil Quotes

Austrian - Writer | November 6, 1880 - April 15, 1942

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

Today Start Diary Need Out Clearly

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

People World Army Violence System

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

Reality Sense Must Possibility Also

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

Life Art End You Perfect Know

Life is to blame for everything.

Life Blame Everything

On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.

People World Real Two People Turn

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

Man Stupid Deep Literature Head

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

Reality Possibilities Nothing More

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

School Believe Master Students Error

Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.

Time Together People World Pause

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.

Thoughts Attention Days Something

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.

Beauty Beautiful Art Me Thought She

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