Everything is politics.
THOMAS MANNHas the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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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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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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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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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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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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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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