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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

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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Care Creature Eyes Human Phenomenon Structure Wonderful
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Astonish Beautiful Original Poetry Solitude Weird
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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Expectation Feeling Joy Life Love Possession Sight Understand Unknown
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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Acceptance Artist Injustice Nature Privilege
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong

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