No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
THOMAS MANNWar is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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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 don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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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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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 good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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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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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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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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