Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
THOMAS MANN
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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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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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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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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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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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