Book: The man without qualities. Page 3

A person is so full of reverence that there is no longer a place for himself in him.

The inner prestige of the spirit was depressingly powerless against the external prestige of the non-commissioned officer.

The way of measuring and describing him by the police inspired him like a love poem composed by Satan. The most remarkable thing here was that the police can not only dismember a person so that nothing will remain of him, but that from these insignificant components it unmistakably assembles him and recognizes him by them.

Permanent life in a well-ordered state definitely contains something ghostly in it; one cannot go outside, drink a glass of water, or board a tram without touching the well-balanced levers of the gigantic apparatus of laws and communications.

The things, it seemed, consisted not of wood and stone, but of a grandiose and infinitely tender immorality, which, at the moment when she came into contact with him, became a deep moral shock.

The chaste and shy women of that time were supposed to wear dresses from ear to ground, but have lush breasts and a solid bottom.

Nietzsche argues that it is a sign of weakness if the artist is too busy with the moral side of his art.

The piano was one of those megaphones through which the soul screams out into the universe.

Ulrich could not stand this always open piano with bared teeth, this wide-faced, short-legged - a cross between a dachshund and a bulbog - an idol who subdued the life of his friends.

This time it was Beethoven's jubilant song of joy; millions, as Nietzsche describes, reverently fell into the dust, the barriers of enmity were broken, separated by peace, united by the gospel of world harmony.

People who imagine that all their strength can be devoted to a cause, instead of spending a fair amount of it on external advancement; they forget that the productivity of a loner is small, and progress is a universal desire.

Even in the empire, truths are only admired for elderly scientists, on whom it depends whether you get an assistant professor or a professorship.

When no one held her in his arms, this quiet, stately woman was oppressed by the contempt for herself, caused by the lies and dishonor, which she went to be held in her arms.

Selflessly tender feelings of a man resemble the growl of a jaguar over a piece of meat.