Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Quote by Thomas Mann

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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,...

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

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...

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....

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

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...

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

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

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

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

It could become much worse.

It could become much worse.

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...

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly...

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly...

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...

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...

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,...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...