Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
THOMAS MANNDistance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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!
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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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Speech is civilization itself.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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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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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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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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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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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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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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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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