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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Thomas Mann

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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Feeling Man Mental Talk
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
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
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
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
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
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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Funny Music Passion Serious Vulgar
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
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
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion

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