Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANNTolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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