Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
THOMAS MANNThe 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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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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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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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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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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Everything is politics.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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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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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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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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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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