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Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.

Thomas Mann

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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Compromises Goodness Moral Opportunity Politics
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present 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
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Expression Ideas Possession Smell Yourself
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
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
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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Conscious Flow Foundation Life Reproduction Time
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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Achievement Beautiful Face Fate Positive Win
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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End Myself Need Sleep

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