What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

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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...

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.

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

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

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 we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not...

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not...

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 great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

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

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

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.

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...

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly...

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly...

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is civilization itself.

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...

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy,...

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy,...

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...

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

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

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.