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

Quote by Thomas Mann

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Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family...

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family...

Hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a...

Hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a...

It could become much worse.

It could become much worse.

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...

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...

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...

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...

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

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.

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

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

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is civilization itself.

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...

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not...

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not...

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

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

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

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare...

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare...

Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should...

Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should...

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too...

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too...