Robert Musil Intellectual Quotations

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

Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.

Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.