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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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...

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....

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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 is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an...

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an...

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,...

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...

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...

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your...

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your...

In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what...

In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what...

Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely

Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely