Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
THOMAS MANNI don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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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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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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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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A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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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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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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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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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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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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