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.
THOMAS MANNForbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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Solitude 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.
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Everything is politics.
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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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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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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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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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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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There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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