Everything is politics.

Quote by Thomas Mann

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle...

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle...

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

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

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well...

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well...

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

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

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...

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.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of...

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of...

Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions...

Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions...