Thomas Mann Quotes - Page 2

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• Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

  Thomas Mann

  Technology, People, Culture

  Thomas Mann (1997). “Doctor Faustus”, Alfred A. Knopf

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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.

  Thomas Mann

  Fate, Achievement, Triumph

  Thomas Mann (1961). “Stories of a lifetime”

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• 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

  Eye, Men, Hysteria

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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.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Sight, Feelings

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.186, Vintage

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• No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

  Thomas Mann

  Men, Discovery, Political

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

  Thomas Mann

  Order, Creator, Dies

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.93, Vintage

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• I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

  Thomas Mann

  Thinking, Long, Term

  "Mondale viewed as solid choice for Dems" by Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. October 29, 2002.

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• A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.

  Thomas Mann

  Beautiful, Lonely, Loneliness

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• Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

  Thomas Mann

  Time, Eternity, Hours

  "The Magic Mountain". Book by Thomas Mann. Chapter 7, 1924.

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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.

  Thomas Mann

  Clever, Stupid, Men

  Thomas Mann (1953). “The magic mountain: Der Zauberberg”, Vintage

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• Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

  Thomas Mann

  Horse, Animal, Doe

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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.

  Thomas Mann

  Artist, Joy, Feelings

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.45, Vintage

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• Everything is politics.

  Thomas Mann

  Reality

  Thomas Mann (1992). “The Magic Mountain”

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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?

  Thomas Mann

  Goodness, Courses

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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!

  Thomas Mann

  Eye, Jewels, Wonderful

  Thomas Mann (1992). “Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years”, Vintage

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• What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

  Thomas Mann

  Eugenics, Ideas, Long

  "The War and the Future". Speech in 1940. "Order of the Day: Political Essays and Speeches of Two Decades". Book by Thomas Mann, 1942.

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• But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

  Thomas Mann

  Children, Blue, Secret Love

  Thomas Mann (1999). “Death in Venice, Tonio Kroger, and Other Writings: Thomas Mann”, p.55, A&C Black

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• Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures.

  Thomas Mann

  Art, Passion, Adventure

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• What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

  Thomas Mann

  Opportunity, Giving, Moral

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• For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

  Thomas Mann

  Foundation, Flow, Timeless

  Thomas Mann (1999). “Death in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and Other Writings”, p.290, A&C Black

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• (T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut.

  Thomas Mann

  Girl, Book, Home

  Thomas Mann (1995). “The magic mountain: a novel”, Random House, Inc.

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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.

  Thomas Mann

  Views, Interesting, Meticulous

  THOMAS MANN (1955). “THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN”

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• Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

  Thomas Mann

  Solitude, Originality, Absurd

  Thomas Mann, Stanley Appelbaum (1995). “Death in Venice”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Death, Men

  Halldór Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck, Thomas Mann (1971). “Halldór Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck [and] Thomas Mann”

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• Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity to the most fleshly lust? The result is perfect clarity in ambiguity, for love cannot be disembodied even in its most sanctified forms, nor is it without sanctity even at its most fleshly. Love is always simply itself, both as a subtle affirmation of life and as the highest passion; love is our sympathy with organic life.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Passion, Perfect

  Thomas Mann (1995). “The magic mountain: a novel”, Random House, Inc.

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