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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

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
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
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
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
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
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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Death Greatness Love Magic
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
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

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

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