You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.
Thomas E. MannSpeech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
Thomas E. MannI will keep faith with death in my heart... For the sake of goodness, for the sake of love, Let no man's heart be ruled by death... The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the .emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.
Thomas E. Mann