Famous quotes containing the word musil:
“Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“Wordsworth’s particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was—to Plato and who else?
The crucial thing is never what we do, but always what we do right after that. What matters is always the next step!”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)