Robert Musil. The man without qualities (№ 431344)

The present century has been given a certain number of ideas, and for each idea, by the special grace of fate, at once its anti-idea, so that individualism and collectivism, nationalism and internationalism, imperialism and pacifism, rationalism and superstition feel equally good in it. This already seems as natural as the fact that there is day and night, heat and cold, love and hate.