What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
THOMAS MANNHe 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.
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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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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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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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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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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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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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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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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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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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