A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
THOMAS MANNAnimals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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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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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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Everything is politics.
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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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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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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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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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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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He 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.
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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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