Author of quotes: Robert Musil. Page 2

A kind person does not at all make the world kind, he does not have any influence on it at all, he only separates from it!

you, but means a kind of dreamy state!

Capitalism as an organization of egoism in accordance with the hierarchy of forces delivering money is, one might say, the greatest and, moreover, the most humane order that we have been able to establish.

Arnheim did not think that education and religion were a natural consequence of property, but believed that property obliges you to own them.

Moral wealth is closely related to material wealth.

Ideas are constantly running back and forth, and therefore you find them in one battle line, then in another. In a word, you can neither draw up a decent communication scheme, nor draw a demarcation line, nor define anything at all, and all this without saying a bad word - although I can’t even believe it! - looks like what any commander here would call a mess!

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.

I usually tell my referees when they bring me some urgent paper: there is nothing urgent in the world except an absence in one place.

Like a lot, I throw my question into your soul! You want a child and a marriage, but I ask you: are you the person who has the right to want a child ?!

I am a person, not a scientific work, contradictions live in me.

We must first of all abandon the approach to events from the standpoint of personal self-interest. We must consider them not so much as something personal and real, but as something general and abstract.

The path of history is not like the path of a billiard ball, which, having received a blow, rolls in a certain direction, but is similar to the path of clouds, to the path of a man wandering the streets, distracted by some shadow, now by a group of people, now by a strangely broken line of houses and eventually ending up in a place that he did not know at all and did not want to reach.

shoot or something like that. World history arises in the same way.

A mighty demonstration coming from the midst of the people cannot be left to chance, but requires perspicacious leadership from an agency with a broad outlook, that is, from above.