Musil

Famous quotes containing the word musil:

    “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)

    “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)

    “What is the use of “good” painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.”
    —Robert Musil (1880–1942)