People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives

Quote by Thomas Mann

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Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature,...

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature,...

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...

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

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

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,...

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

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.

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

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

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...

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.

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

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.

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,...

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...

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.

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...

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the...

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the...

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.