“With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit.” ThinkingStillsFeelingsSpiritLimitsClaimsLaysRationalOriginalityBoldnessProfundity Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses
“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!” MenWorldStillsTogetherCreationPainting Author:Robert Musil
“Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.” WantStillsBrainThese DaysFairytale Author:Robert Musil
“Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.” PeopleStillsUseFormOrderEnergyAgreementExcessDisagreement Author:Robert Musil
“Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.” PeopleWorldLittlesStillsRunningTogetherRoomsObjectsEndlessThreadPausesCentreGlitterTinsel Book:Five Women Source: Five Women
“What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.” WorldWantStillsUseExistencePaintingCastsSpells Author:Robert Musil
