Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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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 tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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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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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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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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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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Everything is politics.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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