We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
THOMAS MANNFor the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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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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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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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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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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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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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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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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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