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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Thomas Mann

Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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Infinite Life Sea Thinking 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
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
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
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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Change Magic Thinking Vehicle Word
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
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
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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Artist Feeling High Joy Thinking
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

Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

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