Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
THOMAS MANNFor the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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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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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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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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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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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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