Famous quotes containing the word musil:
“... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.”
—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)
“Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)