Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANNOnly love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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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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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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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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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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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 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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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