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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

Thomas Mann

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
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
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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End Myself Need Sleep
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
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
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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Expectation Feeling Joy Life Love Possession Sight Understand Unknown
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
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
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
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
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
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

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