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Respectable means rich, and d...

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

A great truth is a truth whos...

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

A man lives not only his pers...

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

The writer's joy is the thoug...

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

Order and simplification are ...

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

For I must tell you that we a...

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

One has the idea of a stupid ...

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

For the beautiful word begets...

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

A man's dying is more his sur...

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

Human reason needs only to wi...

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

One must die to life in order...

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

War is only a cowardly escape...

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

He who loves the more is the ...

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

It is a strange fact that fre...

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

Nothing is stranger or more t...

Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

I tell them that if they will...

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.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

Nothing is more curious and a...

Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

What pleases the public is li...

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.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

The accouterments of life wer...

The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every accessory was so costly and beautiful that it had an existence above and beyond the purpose it was meant to serve – confusing the observer and absorbing attention.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

A man’s dying is more the sur...

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

Thomas Mann 179 quotes

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