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.
THOMAS MANN
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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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Speech is civilization itself.
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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Everything is politics.
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Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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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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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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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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