Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
THOMAS MANNSolitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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