An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

Quote by Thomas Mann

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The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an...

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an...

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of...

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of...

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry....

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry....

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

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

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of...

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of...

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming...

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming...

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

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

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,...

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.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to...

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to...

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from...

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from...

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

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...