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

Quote by Thomas Mann

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For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry....

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry....

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...

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.

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

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.

It could become much worse.

It could become much worse.

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is civilization itself.

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...

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...

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

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

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

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...