Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANNFor to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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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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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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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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.
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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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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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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.
THOMAS MANN