Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
THOMAS MANNAnimals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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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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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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