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Thomas Mann Inspirational Quotes (70)

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There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
Thomas Mann
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Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
Thomas E. Mann
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It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life.
Thomas Mann
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My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.
Thomas Langmann
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Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
Thomas E. Mann
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Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
Thomas Mann
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
Thomas Mann
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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
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
Thomas Mann
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He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
Thomas Mann
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It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.
Thomas E. Mann
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The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
Thomas Mann
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He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
Thomas Mann
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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
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
Thomas Mann
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I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.
Thomas Kretschmann
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We don't love qualities, we love persons sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Thomas Mann
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I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.
Thomas Kretschmann
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Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.
Thomas E. Mann
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Whose best and most fruitful gift was the power of admiration, which made it possible for me to learn. Now, as in my youth, I am looking up to the truly great creations of the past, which I see high above my own and which alone deserve the name of greatness.
Thomas E. Mann
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
Thomas Mann
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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
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Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.
Thomas E. Mann
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