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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
