No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
THOMAS MANNI 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.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Everything is politics.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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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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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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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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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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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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