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.
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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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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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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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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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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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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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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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