Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
THOMAS MANNEverything is politics.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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 don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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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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Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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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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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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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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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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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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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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