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

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

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

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...

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which...

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which...

It could become much worse.

It could become much worse.

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is civilization itself.

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...

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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...

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family...

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family...

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...

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare...

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare...

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...

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

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.

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.