Robert Musil Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

  Robert Musil

  Reality, Choices, World

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.292, Pan Macmillan

• If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

  Robert Musil

  Reality, Possibility, Ifs

  Robert Musil (2017). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

• And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse of how it may all of a sudden happen to someone who cannot summon up any sense of reality — even in relation to himself — that one day he appears to himself as a man without qualities.

  Robert Musil

  Reality, Men, Giving

  Robert Musil (1953). “The Man Without Qualities: A sort of introduction. The like of it now happens (I)”

• We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's work to be done. To be efficient, one cannot be hungry and dreamy but must eat steak and keep moving.

  Robert Musil

  Dream, Moving, Reality

  Robert Musil, Sophie Wilkins (1996). “The Man Without Qualities”, Vintage

• It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

  Robert Musil

  Reality, Ethos, Would Be

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin