Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
THOMAS MANNThis 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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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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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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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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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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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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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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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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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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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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