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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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.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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.

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....

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...

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...

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

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...

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

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