Musil

Famous quotes containing the word musil:

    The smallest fact about the connection between character and hormonal balance offers more insight into the soul than a five-story idealistic system [of philosophy] does.
    —Robert Musil (1880–1942)

    ... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.
    —Robert Musil (1880–1942)

    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 (1880–1942)