Author of quotes: Robert Musil. Page 7

The person usually does not know that in order to be able to be what he is, he must believe that he is something more...

Internal void, a monstrous mixture of insight in the particulars and indifference in General, the incredible loneliness of man in the desert of details, his anxiety, anger and unparalleled callousness, greed, coldness and cruelty, characteristic of our time, are, from this evidence, a consequence of the losses inflicted on the soul logically sharp thinking!

Possible can awaken to the reality, and there is nothing more absurd than to deny it.

... beauty and kindness of the people come from, what they believe, and not what they know.

- I feel sick! he said. It was old, ingrained formula, which meant that he could use a drink.

If the father is poor, my sons, they love the money. But if dad has the money, the sons, they love humanity.

... who can do whatever he pleases neither, he soon has himself not knows what he want.

Morality for most is a system of ensuring self-righteousness.