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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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.
