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Small: Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbari
"Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradic
"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: It could become much worse
"It could become much worse"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it
"If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest Ive had
"I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress
"I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: I dont think anyone is thinking long-term now
"I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer
"He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
"Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance it is
"For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts
"For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: For the myth is the foundation of life it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when
"For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed
"For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and a
"For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist
"Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body
"Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness
"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life,
"But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: 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"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself
"An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: 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"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intens
"A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: A mans dying is more his survivors affair than his own
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of
"A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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Small: Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, t
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
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Small: Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introdu
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
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Small: What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
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Small: Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divin
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
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Small: What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
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Small: In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily ap
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
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Small: Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the phil
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
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Small: There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
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Small: Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
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Small: Virtue is reason which has become energy
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Virtue is reason which has become energy"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
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Small: Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
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Small: Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic n
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
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Small: Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
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Small: Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mystic
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
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Small: Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
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Small: Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
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