We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
THOMAS MANNThe 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.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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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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I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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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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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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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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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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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.
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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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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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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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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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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 writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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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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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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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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