Robert Musil Quotes


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.


Citations

Musil, Robert. The Man Without Qualities. Translated by Sophie Wilkins, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

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Robert Musil
Robert Musil
  • Born: November 6, 1880
  • Died: April 15, 1942
  • Nationality: Austrian
  • Profession: Novelist

Robert Musil was an Austrian philosophical writer. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften), is generally considered to be one of the most important and influential modernist novels.