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One Quotes by Thomas Mann
- One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
- One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
- The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer…
- There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world…
- And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved;…
- Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?
- Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It…
- Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity to the most…
- There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
- A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his…
- 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 of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
- Hey I'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a state of mind I could call mine, that only I…
- And lending it one mental fillip the more, the fact that all these people were inwardly attacked by well-nigh resistless decay, and that most of…
- And no less firmly do I hold that we shall one day recognize in Freud's life-work the cornerstone for the building of a new anthropology…
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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