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!
THOMAS MANNWe do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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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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Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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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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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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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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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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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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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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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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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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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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