For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Quote by Thomas Mann

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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

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...

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

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

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,...

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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,...

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

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

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.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple...

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple...

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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...

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.