Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
THOMAS MANNOne must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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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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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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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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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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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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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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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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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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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