Quote by Thomas Mann
You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemizat

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown. – Thomas Mann

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Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. – Thomas Mann

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Time
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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 and wiser humanity. – Thomas Mann

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Future
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Mystery
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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. – Elias Canetti

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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. – Joseph Joubert

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Mystery is not profoundness. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Mystery

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History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make. – Author Unknown

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My dads not a very intimidating father figure. – Georgia Jagger

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Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea. – Craig Bruce

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Unjust. How many times Ive used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I dont have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. – Lillian Hellman

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