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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

Thomas Mann

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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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Funny Music Passion Serious Vulgar
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
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
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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Deprive Himself Man Safety Smoke Touch Understand
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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End Myself Need Sleep
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror

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