Robert Musil Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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.

  Robert Musil

  Book, Reading, Perspective

• ... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.

  Robert Musil

  Art, Intellectual, Age

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.88, University of Chicago Press

• 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.

  Robert Musil

  Stupid, Mean, Men

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.767, Pan Macmillan

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