Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject — the actual enemy is the unknown. - Thomas Mann

Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject

"Miss von Osterloh had looked through it once during an idle fifteen minutes and pronunce it "quite sophisticated," which veredict was her euphemism for "inhumanly boring.

But was it not true that there were people, certain individuals, whom one found it impossible to picture dead, precisely because they were so vulgar? That was to say: they seemed so fit for life, so good at it, that they would never die, as if they were unworthy of the consecration of death.

For at the moment of the final division, the final miniaturization of matter, suddenly the whole cosmos opened up.