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.
THOMAS MANNOnly love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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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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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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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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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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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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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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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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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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