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There is, in short, no great ...

There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

That the will of the people c...

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.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

... there is no such thing as...

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

... for the modern soul, for ...

... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

... the structure of a page o...

... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

The difference between a heal...

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.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

Each person is a graveyard of...

Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth; later we can often sense a deep pain that they leave us indifferent where earlier they enchanted us.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

Ideology is: intellectual ord...

Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

... there is a particular pro...

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

There is nothing in this worl...

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Robert Musil 102 quotes

To love something as an artis...

To love something as an artist ... means to be shaken not by its ultimate value or lack of value, but by a side of it that suddenly opens up. Where art has value it shows things that few have seen. It's conquering, not pacifying.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

For only fools, fanatics, and...

For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

Is not art a tool we employ t...

Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?

Robert Musil 102 quotes

... the novel is called upon ...

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

... the genius never makes an...

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

Strong emotional experiences ...

Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that person and death knows this, as does whoever has fallen into the catastrophe of a deep depression, anyone who has loved a woman to the dregs, anyone who has beaten others bloody or ever come up behind another person with muscles trembling. "Losing one's head," language calls it. Emotional experience is, in itself, poor in qualities; qualities are brought to it by the person who has the experience.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

I am not only convinced that ...

I am not only convinced that what I say is false, but also that what one might say against it is false. Despite this, one must begin to talk about it. In such a case the truth lies not in the middle, but rather all around, like a sack, which, with each new opinion one stuffs into it, changes its form, and becomes more and more firm.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

and while faith based on theo...

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.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

There is, in short, no great i...

There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

The truth is not a crystal tha...

The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

Robert Musil 102 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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