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Quotation by Robert Musil
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[On Criticism] Robert Musil: Precision and Soul. Essays and Addresses, p. 43, ed. and trans. by Burton Pike and David S. Luft, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1990)diary entry, 1918-1921 Tagebucher, ed. Adolf Frise, trans. by Donald C. Rieche, Rowohlt (1976)Diary entry, date uncertain: 1899?-1905/06 Tagebucher, 2 vols., ed. Adolf Frise, trans. by Donald C. Rieche, Rowohlt (1976)Die Wallfahrt nach Innen [The Pilgrimage into the Interior] p. 1447, ed. Adolf Frise, trans. by Donald C. Riechel, Rowohlt (1978)Helpless Europe. A Digressive Journey (1922) Robert Musil, Precision and Soul. Essays and Addresses, p. 127, ed. and trans. by Burton Pike and David S. Luft, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1990)
Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.
Robert Musil (1880–1942), Austrian author. The Man Without Qualities, book I, part 2, ch. 62, Gesammelte Werke in Neun Banden [Collected Works in Nine Volumes], vol. I, p. 253, ed. Adolf Frise, trans. by Donald C. Riechel, Rowohlt (1978).
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