Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that person and death knows this, as does whoever has fallen into the catastrophe of a deep depression, anyone who has loved a woman to the dregs, anyone who has beaten others bloody or ever come up behind another person with muscles trembling. "Losing one's head," language calls it. Emotional experience is, in itself, poor in qualities; qualities are brought to it by the person who has the experience.
Robert MusilYou proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a single hour.
Robert MusilIt's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.
Robert Musil