Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANNFor to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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Everything is politics.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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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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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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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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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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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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 great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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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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