Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANNI don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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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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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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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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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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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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