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 MusilLife forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.
Robert MusilAnd since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse of how it may all of a sudden happen to someone who cannot summon up any sense of reality — even in relation to himself — that one day he appears to himself as a man without qualities.
Robert Musil