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"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."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."


"We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities."


"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."


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


"Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?"


"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."
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