One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Quote by Thomas Mann

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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...

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...

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.

It could become much worse.

It could become much worse.

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is civilization itself.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to...

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to...

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...

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious...

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious...

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...

What is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

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

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

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

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

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.

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...

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...

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.

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.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs,...

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs,...