What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
THOMAS MANNTolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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 do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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