Robert Musil Quotes

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

If we can't agree on objective truth, then how are we ever going to agree on opinions?

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.

I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

The truth is rarely true and never simple.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

There are many levels of truth.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

There are two sides to every question.

The color of truth is gray.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.