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Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.

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
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Goal Motive Need People Yourself
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
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Expression Ideas Possession Smell Yourself
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
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
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
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
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
Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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Infinite Life Sea Thinking Time

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.

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