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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.

Thomas Mann

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
THOMAS MANN

Average Honor Word
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
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Expedition Music People Thinking World
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Age Creation Demand Terror
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
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
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
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
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
THOMAS MANN

Himself Man Quite Recognition

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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