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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?

Thomas Mann

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time
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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Care Creature Eyes Human Phenomenon Structure Wonderful
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
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
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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Expedition Music People Thinking World
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
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

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