A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
THOMAS MANNHe probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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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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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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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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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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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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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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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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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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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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The 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.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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