Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
THOMAS MANNI don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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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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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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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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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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What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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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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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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