A Quote by Thomas Mann
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
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Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man and his natural potential are the root of the entire human domain. The great task of all philosophizing is to become competent to interpret and steer the potential developmental forces in human natures and in the human condition, both of which are prodigiously fatalistic.
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