Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
THOMAS MANNA great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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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There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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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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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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Speech is civilization itself.
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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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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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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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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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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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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I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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