Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
THOMAS MANNIs not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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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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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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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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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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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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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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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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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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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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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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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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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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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Everything is politics.
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