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

Thomas Mann

Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
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
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
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 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
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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Achievement Beautiful Face Fate Positive Win
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
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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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Himself Inferior Love Suffering
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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Author Book Enough Genius Greatness Happiness Strange
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion

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