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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Thomas Mann

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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History Ideas Intellect Life Poison
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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Feeling Man Mental Talk
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
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 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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Act Adversity Fatal Grace Poised Positive
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
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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Artist Feeling High Joy Thinking
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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Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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Belong Bright Charm Children Deep Love Myself Ordinary Secret
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
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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