The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

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For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out...

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out...

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or...

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or...

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which...

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which...

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness,...

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness,...

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history...

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history...

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy,...

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy,...

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

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

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell...

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell...