Speech is civilization itself.
THOMAS MANNI don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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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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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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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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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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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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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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Everything is politics.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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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