He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
THOMAS MANNEverything is politics.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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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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Everything is politics.
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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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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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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 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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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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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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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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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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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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He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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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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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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