A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
THOMAS MANNEvery reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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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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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell 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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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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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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