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In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.
Robert Musil
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Robert Musil
Age: 61 †
Born: 1880
Born: November 6
Died: 1942
Died: April 15
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All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!
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One does what one is one becomes what one does.
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But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!
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Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.
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To love something as an artist ... means to be shaken not by its ultimate value or lack of value, but by a side of it that suddenly opens up. Where art has value it shows things that few have seen. It's conquering, not pacifying.
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Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was--to Plato and who else? The crucial thing is never what we do, but always what we do right after that. What matters is always the next step!
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Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.
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[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.
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A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.
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... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.
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Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth later we can often sense a deep pain that they leave us indifferent where earlier they enchanted us.
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Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?
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Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.
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An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will engage in actions that mean something else to him than to others, but he is at peace with himself about everything as long as he can make it all come together in a fine idea.
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Have we not huddled in bunkers, while some premonition of tomorrow hung in the air and a comrade started singing? Oh, it felt so melancholy! And it was kitsch.
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Life is to blame for everything.
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True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.
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the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress
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