It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANN
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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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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.
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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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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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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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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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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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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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Everything is politics.
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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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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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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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