A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
THOMAS MANNI 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.
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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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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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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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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Everything is politics.
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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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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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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
THOMAS MANN