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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

Thomas Mann

We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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History Ideas Intellect Life Poison
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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Act Adversity Fatal Grace Poised Positive
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
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Expedition Music People Thinking World
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Clever Health Ideas Man Perfection Refine Unusual
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Goal Motive Need People Yourself
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

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