I also believe that few people remain completely untouched by the thought that instead of the life they lead there might also be another, where all actions proceed from a very personal state of excitement. Where actions have meanings, not just causes. And where a person, to use a trivial word, is happy, and not just nervously tormenting himself.
Robert MusilLife forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.
Robert MusilOnly 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 MusilPhilosophers 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