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

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of...

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of...

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

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...

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...

The impact of space activities is nothing less than the galvanizing of hope and imagination...

The impact of space activities is nothing less than the galvanizing of hope and imagination...

What the nation needs now is not the technology, for we possess that. We have...

What the nation needs now is not the technology, for we possess that. We have...

All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.

All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.