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

Quote by Thomas Mann

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For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the...

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the...

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...

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of...

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of...

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

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

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

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

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

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