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.
THOMAS MANNSpeech is civilization itself.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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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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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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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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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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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 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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A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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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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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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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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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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