What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
THOMAS MANN
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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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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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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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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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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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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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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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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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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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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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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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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