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Robert Musil
Robert Musil
Austrian Writer
Born: Nov 6, 1880
Died: Apr 15, 1942
Art Good Life Man People World
Related authors: Ayn Rand Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas Mann Thomas Paine Voltaire
Life is to blame for everything. Robert Musil
Life Blame Everything
It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them. Robert Musil
Man Will Value First Sum Possibilities Above Direction Gives He Idea New Along Until Does Always Go Repeating New Possibilities Same Them Meaning Average Themselves Who Awakens Actuality
It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it! Robert Musil
School Master Believe Students Make Makes Historic Error
Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system. Robert Musil
Army People World Philosophers System Locking Subjugate Who Disposal Violence
On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room. Robert Musil
People World Trembling Hung Scarcely Rested Real Sensation Room Turn Whole Thin Axis Two Two People
A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. Robert Musil
Man Stupid Philosophers Fine Above Shallow He Head Talents Contemporaries Particularly Geniuses Regarded Literature Average Much Means Deep Thinkers
The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again. Robert Musil
Thoughts Further Must Finds Disturbed Something Only Remarks Developed Emotionally Attention Days Make Loose Shifted Again Used Found Here
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both. Robert Musil
Good Book Rare Other Bad Cases Determine Only Both Most Unusual Just Whether Useful
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one. Robert Musil
Healthy Mental Only Mentally Fact Between Healthy Person Person Difference Ill Who Illnesses

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