The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one. Robert Musil differencefacthealthy Change image and share on social
All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man! Robert Musil creationdaygod Change image and share on social
Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression. Robert Musil abilityendureimpression Change image and share on social
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. Robert Musil attentiondaydevelop share on social
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. Robert Musil artbeautifulbeauty Change image and share on social
It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them. Robert Musil actualityaverageawaken share on social
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 armydisposallock Change image and share on social
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. Robert Musil axisfaintlyhang Change image and share on social
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both. Robert Musil badbookcase Change image and share on social
