Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
THOMAS MANNWar is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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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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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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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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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 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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He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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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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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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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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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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