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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Thomas Mann

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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Change Magic Thinking Vehicle Word
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
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
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
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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Acceptance Artist Injustice Nature Privilege
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
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
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Creation Death Life Oneself
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word

Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

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