Robert Musil Quotes about Stupidity

All Robert Musil Quotes Art Feelings Giving Life Lying Quality Reality Soul Stupidity quotes

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

Robert Musil

Hands, Clothes, Stupidity

Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.284, University of Chicago Press

There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

Robert Musil

Ideas, Stupidity, Use

Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers.

Robert Musil

Character, Talking, Stupidity

Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.280, University of Chicago Press