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

Other quotes by Thomas Mann

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. – Thomas Mann

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Death
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. – Thomas Mann

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Beauty
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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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Other Quotes from
Mystery
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Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Mystery

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. – Douglas Adams

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Mystery

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. – Rene Magritte

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Mystery

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. – Albert Einstein

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Mystery

Random Quotes

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. – Author Unknown

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Experience

If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner. – Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Chocolate

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed. – Marc Andreessen

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Home

All of us grow up in particular realities – a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how were brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. – Chaim Potok

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Family