If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
THOMAS MANNA harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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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.
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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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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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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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