But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
THOMAS MANNWhat we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from 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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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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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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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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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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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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