Everything is politics.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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Everything is politics.
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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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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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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 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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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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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Speech is civilization itself.
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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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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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