People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
THOMAS MANNHe thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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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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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.
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He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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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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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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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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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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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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