Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
THOMAS MANNSpeech is civilization itself.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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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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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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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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Everything is politics.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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 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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Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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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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