A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
THOMAS MANNA great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Solitude 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.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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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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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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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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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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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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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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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