A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
THOMAS MANN
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!
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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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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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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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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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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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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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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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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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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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