Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
THOMAS MANNOnly love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Everything is politics.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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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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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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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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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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