For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the hig…

Robert Musil
43 citations
For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire. ✨ Robert Musil (2015). The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic, p.189, Pan Macmillan
Life
7

More Author Quotes

...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet. ✨ Robert Musil (201 … ▶
[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit. ✨ Robert Musil (2015). The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic, p.32, Pan Macmillan
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 Mus … ▶
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both. ✨ Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. … ▶
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. ✨ … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes