People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
THOMAS MANNI 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.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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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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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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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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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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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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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.
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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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