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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Thomas Mann

What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
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
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
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
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
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
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
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
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 probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking

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