But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
THOMAS MANNWhat our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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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A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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