The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and the mentally …

- Robert Musil

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

- Robert Musil

... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact wit…

- Robert Musil

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

- Robert Musil

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress…

- Robert Musil

...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat wi…

- Robert Musil

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

- Robert Musil

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

- Robert Musil

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

- Robert Musil