Author of quotes: Robert Musil. Page 1

Think historically at least once: how can the direct participants in an event know in advance whether it will be great? They can only imagine that it is great.

Feuermaul writes poetry that a person is kind. Many people now believe in this.

In order to establish the basic ideals of life, one must know life and people so thoroughly and at the same time so heroically overcome passions and selfishness, as very few individuals were destined for millennia. And these teachers of mankind have professed the same truth at all times.

Development is always associated with opposition. We cannot develop one side of nature without holding back the growth of the other.

Probably, you can only help someone whose suffering he himself once experienced.

History has never developed through such a systematic connection of ideas, which is possible only in the mind of an individual person, but was always done so wastefully and devastatingly, as if it had been thrown onto the table by the fist of some rude gambler.

Whoever undertakes to implement fundamental political ideas today must have something of a bankrupt and a criminal.

Sexuality is given too much importance. This is essentially the goat tricks of the era.

It was March. But it is not always possible to rely on meteorology, it sometimes arranges a June evening earlier or later than it should be.

Feelings are also now not the time. Thoughts and feelings are more for those who have nothing to do.

Perhaps even today our morality is falling into two parts. I could also say: to mathematics and mysticism. For practical land reclamation and adventures with the unknown.

I do not believe that good is holding back evil.

I believe that nothing is in balance, that everything wants to rise with the help of something else.

Nothing could be gained by indulging in illusions that did not stand up to scrutiny.