Robert Musil: the Man Without Qualities

"He is a man without qualities... there are millions of them nowadays... what he thinks of anything will always depend on some possible context-- nothing is, to him, what it is; everything is subject to change, in flux, part of a whole, of an infinite number of wholes presumably adding up to a superwhole that, however, he knows nothing about. So every answer he gives is only a partial answer, every feeling only an opinion, and he never cares what something is, only 'how' it is."