War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
THOMAS MANNOnly love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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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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Everything is politics.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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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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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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