What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back; as it is grief at not being able to want to do so

Quote by Thomas Mann

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I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming...

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple...

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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,...

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...

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...

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.

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...