Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
THOMAS MANNThomas Mann Quotes
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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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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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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
THOMAS MANN