Robert Musil Quotes about Reality

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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.

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)”

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

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

Robert Musil Quotes about Reality

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