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 good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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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 our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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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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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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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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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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