“For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementary inclination. He felt at times as though he had been born with a talent for which there was at present no objective.” PhilosophyLiteratureGenius Book:The Man Without Qualities: Volume I Source: The Man Without Qualities: Volume I
“... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.” ArtAgeFormLiteratureNovelIntellectual Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses
“The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective.” BookReadingLiteratureLostLosesSecretPerspectiveTablesBoundsTitlesLibrarianTable Of Contents Author:Robert Musil
“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.” MenMeanLiteratureTalentStupidFineGeniusAveragePhilosopherThinkerShallow Book:The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic Source: The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic
