For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Quote by Thomas Mann

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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...

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...

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...

What is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell...

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell...

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.

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...

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...

It could become much worse.

It could become much worse.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

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

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

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.

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,...

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...