Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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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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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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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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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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Everything is politics.
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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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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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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Speech is civilization itself.
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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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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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He 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.
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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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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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