He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
THOMAS MANNThe 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.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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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He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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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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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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