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Thomas Mann Quotes

Fanaticism turns into a means of salvation, enthusiasm into epileptic ecstasy, politics becomes an opiate for the masses, a proletarian eschatology; and reason veils her face.

Source:'An Appeal to Reason' in Berliner Tageblatt (October 18, 1930)
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