Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
THOMAS MANNOnly love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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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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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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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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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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