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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An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness,...

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness,...

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

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

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....

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

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.

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...

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...

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...

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...

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.

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 the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

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.

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.