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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Thomas Mann

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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Compromises Goodness Moral Opportunity Politics
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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Conscious Flow Foundation Life Reproduction Time
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
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
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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Belong Bright Charm Children Deep Love Myself Ordinary Secret
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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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Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst

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