Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
THOMAS MANNSolitude 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.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Speech is civilization itself.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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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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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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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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What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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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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