What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
THOMAS MANN
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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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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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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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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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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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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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Everything is politics.
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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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