Musil

Famous quotes containing the word musil:

    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)

    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 (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)