Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
THOMAS MANNPeople’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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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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A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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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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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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