Musil

[Héctor]

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

Robert Musil

[Héctor]

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

Musil

[Héctor]

Something about Nietzsche. They call him unphilosophical. His works read like spiritual plays. To me he seems to be someone who opened hundreds of new possible ways and has realized none. That is the reason why people to whom new ways are a necessity love him, and those that cannot do without mathematically calculated results call him unphilosophical. Nietzsche himself is of not too great an importance. But Nietzsche and ten sturdy intellectual labourers that do what he has merely pointed out would bring our culture ahead with a step of thousand years. Nietzsche is like a park, open to the public - but nobody enters!

Robert Musil, Diaries